Tropical Plant Database - Plant Details

Evergreen shrub, 3 to 10 feet tall (1-3 m). The leaves are opposite sessile, ovate to oblong with wavy margins, 2 inches (5 cm) long, with a white downy pubescence beneath. Flowers tubular, pink, the tube is externally pubescent. The fruit is a small capsule with numerous seeds.
(Preda, M. 1989. Dendrofloricol Encyclopedia.)

Arachnothryx leucophylla is native to southern Mexico.

This species is often planted as an ornamental shrub. Its pink flowers produce a sweet fragrance in the evening, hence its name Huele de noche (fragrant at night) in Mexico.

We currently have 24 herbarium specimens for Arachnothryx leucophylla in our collection. Click on any specimen below to view the herbarium sheet data.

• 020580 - collected by David H. Lorence in 1984
• 011421 - collected by Pedro Tenorio L. in 1985
• 013503 - collected by Roy E. Gereau in 1986
• 012315 - collected by Rafael Torres C. in 1986
• 010595 - collected by E. Solano Camacho in 1987
• 009062 - collected by Oswaldo Tellez V. in 1988
• PTBG1000067090 - collected by Oswaldo Tellez V. in 1988
• 012055 - collected by H. H. Iltis in 1988
• 012056 - collected by H. H. Iltis in 1988
• 006864 - collected by Oswaldo Tellez V. in 1989
• 009056 - collected by Gabriel Flores F. in 1989
• 009061 - collected by Pedro Tenorio L. in 1989
• 010510 - collected by Lucia Vazquez V. in 1990
• 010497 - collected by A. C. Sanders in 1991
• 012239 - collected by Emily J. Lott in 1991
• 010516 - collected by Lucia Vazquez V. in 1991
• 010521 - collected by A. C. Sanders in 1991
• 024192 - collected by Janna Weiss in 1994
• 040607 - collected by David H. Lorence in 2003
• 050503 - collected by T. R. Van Devender in 2006
• 050502 - collected by T. R. Van Devender in 2006
• 050501 - collected by A. L. Reina G. in 2006
• 047139 - collected by T. R. Van Devender in 2007
• Unassigned - collected by Kenia Velasco Gutierrez in 2017