''Sabicea villosa'', the woolly woodvine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a perennial

dicot The dicotyledons, also known as dicots (or, more rarely, dicotyls), are one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants (angiosperms) were formerly divided. The name refers to one of the typical characteristics of the group: namely, t ...

with both vine and

shrub A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...

growth habits that prefers wetlands locations. It is a native plant of Puerto Rico, Central America and South America. ''Sabicea villosa'' grows in the rainforest ecosystem on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal that is currently being studied by scientists from the Smithsonean Tropical Research Institute.See Plate 88 for ''Sabicea villosa'' pollen.
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villosa ''Villosa'' is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the family Unionidae The Unionidae are a family of freshwater mussels, the largest in the order Unionida, the bivalve molluscs sometimes known as river mussels, or simp ...

Flora of Puerto Rico Flora of Central America Flora of northern South America Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Rubiaceae-stub