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Tournefortia cuspidata

Botanic Family

Boraginaceae

Author

Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth

Common Names

• Borrajo (Colombia)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Costa Rica
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela
• Trinidad

Natural Habitats

• Bamboo forest
• creekside
• scrubland
• forests
• seasonally inundated areas
• coastal
• moist forest

Flowering Times

• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• May
• Oct

Liana, scandent hairy shrub or tree with pubescent brown-hairy branchlets. Strigose leaves to 150mm x 60mm. Terminal hirsute dense spikes or cymes to 30mm long of fragrant white flowers, hairy calyx lobes to 9mm long, strigose white corolla tube 8mm long, lobes to 1.8mm long with limb to 6mm long. Fruit a glabrous verrucose white fleshy ovoid berry to 8mm x 5mm.

Further References

• NYBG
• Mobot
• Neotrop The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• JAA
• FOPE
• Standley
• Academia