Echites
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Apocynaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Twining vines or lianas, with abundant milky or watery latex. Leaves opposite; blades simple; petioles with or without glands; stipules glandular, intrapetiolar and interpetiolar. Flowers bisexual, in axillary cymes, elongate or compact. Calyx campanulate, of 5 elongate sepals, each with a glandular appendage at the base on the inner surface; corolla hypocrateriform, not ringed in the throat; stamens 5, inserted, the anthers concrescent around the stigma, the filaments united to the corolla; ovary superior, with 5 glandular nectarines at the base; carpels 2, free at the base, united at the apex by a style in common. Fruits of 2 cylindrical follicles; seeds numerous, with a tuft of long hairs at the apex. A neotropical genus of approximately 35 species.