Melastomataceae Charianthus purpureus D.Don

| |	© W.D. Hawthorne

Keywords in this picture :

• Foliage
• Flower
• Lamina leaf blade
• Vegetative
• Venation
• Leaf parts
• Inflorescence
• Flower & fruit
• Leaf
• Plant parts

Places where this species can be found :

• Mount Qua Qua - GRENADA
• Mt. St. Catherine - GRENADA

Species information

Interest
means with elegant flowers.

Specimen information

Collection Date
26/11/1999

Collector
W.D. Hawthorne, C. Hughes

Specimen Number
242

Location
Trail to Mount Qua Qua from Gran Etang on ridge above and W of Gran Etang Lake about 3.5km N of the St. Georges to Grenville rd.

Notes
Small, branchy, tree to 3-5m ht. Slash thin, fibrous, salmon-pink with a watery orange exudate beneath the bark. Young twigs strongly yellow lenticelate. Leaves strongly bullate, strongly emarginate, the apex curved downwards; upper surface - glossy, midrib and laterals deeply impressed; lower surface - shiny, midrib and main nerves yellower. Flowers - buds bright scarlet, 5 deciduous imbricate scarlet corolla lobes, style and filaments flushed pink at tips, otherwise yellow, anthers dehiscing longitudinally. Fruits reddish, turning purple. Common in elfin forest along ridgetop. (RHS colour code: Leaf upper =146A, below=144A)

Coordinates
Latitude: 12.060000 N   Longitude: 61.420000 W   Altitude: 680