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Tournefortia setacea

Botanic Family

Boraginaceae

Author

Killip

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Evergreen forest
• riverside
• shrubland
• disturbed areas

Flowering Times

• Jan
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jun
• Jul
• Oct
• Dec

Scandent shrub or liana with strigillose leaves & young branches. Leaves to 140mm x 75mm. Inflorescence to 70mm across, greenish-white to pale yellow flowers, sepals to 5mm long, strigillose corolla tube, lobes to 1.5mm long. Strigillose white fruit to 4mm long.

Further References

• NYBG
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE