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Tournefortia maculata

Botanic Family

Boraginaceae

Author

Jacquin

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guadeloupe
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Lesser Antilles
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Tropical rainforest
• secondary vegetation
• logged forest
• disturbed forest
• shrubland
• forest
• coastal
• riverside
• hedgerows
• montane areas
• thickets

Flowering Times

• All year (Nic)
• Feb (Guadeloupe)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Nic)
• Feb (Guadeloupe)

Glabrous or villous twining woody liana to 7m, shrub or tree with angular pilose branches. Leaves to 150mm x 80mm glabrous except strigose on nerves & veins or glabrate. Terminal cymes , spikes or thyrses to 150mm long of 6-10 fragrant yellow-green flowers with 6mm long tubes, puberulous or glabrescent outside, 3mm lobes , calyx to 1.5mm long, greenish-white corolla with tube to 8mm long & lobes to 2.5mm long, limb to 5mm across. 4-lobed orange fruit or white with black marks, 6mm x 8mm

Further References

• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Fedde
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• JAA
• FOPE
• Standley