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Warszewiczia coccinea

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Vahl) Klotzsch

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• S. Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Normally a tree or shrub to 12m, just occasionally a vine or scandent shrub, glabrate branches, almost glabrous leaves to 650mm x 350mm, cymes to 400mm long with minute bracts & bractlets, glabrous calyx lobes to 1.5mm long, one lobe expanded into a red limb 70mm x 25mm, yellow or orange corolla 8mm long, pilose capsule 5mm long

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• Kew
• Standley