Randia nicaraguensis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Gentianales
- Family
- Rubiaceae
- Genus
- Randia
- Species
- Randia nicaraguensis
- Scientific Name
- Randia nicaraguensis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Randia nicaraguensis
Randia nicaraguensis is a plant species endemic to Nicaragua. It occurs in tropical drought-deciduous forests at elevations below 850 m.
Randia nicaraguensis is a dioecious, deciduous shrub or small tree up to 3 m tall, with a spiny trunk, spiny twigs and exfoliating bark. Leaves are thick and leathery, obovate to lanceolate with winged rachis, the blade up to 10 cm long. Flowers are produced in the tips of branches. Flowers are trumpet-shaped, white or yellow with a green center, up to 15 mm long. Fruits are hard, spherical, up to 70 mm in diameter.
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Parent Taxon
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- Randia chiapensis
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- Randia confusa
- Randia cookii
- Randia coronata
- Randia crucis
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- Randia dioica
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- Randia echinocarpa
- Randia erythrocarpa
- Randia ferox
- Randia genipifolia
- Randia genipoides
- Randia gentryi
- Randia grandifolia
- Randia guerrerensis
- Randia hebecarpa
- Randia heteromera
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- Randia hondensis
- Randia hypoleuca
- Randia induta
- Randia laetevirens
- Randia laevigata
- Randia laevigatoides
- Randia lanuginosa
- Randia longiloba
- Randia lonicerioides
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- Randia malacocarpa
- Randia manglaris
- Randia matudae
- Randia mayana
- Randia mendozae
- Randia micracantha
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- Randia mixe
- Randia mollifolia
- Randia monantha
- Randia moorei
- Randia nelsonii
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- Randia nodifolia
- Randia oaxacana
- Randia obcordata
- Randia obovata
- Randia ovalifolia
- Randia pascualii
- Randia petenensis
- Randia pittieri
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- Randia pterocarpa
- Randia pubistyla
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