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Abuta panamensis

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

(Standley) Krukoff & Barneby

Common Names

• Costilla de Vaca (Mexico)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Chiapas
• Veracruz - Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Dense wet forest
• volcano
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Apr
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Dec

Woody climber to 15m with pilose branches. Coriaceous leaves to 200mm x 130mm, glabrous above & somewhat pilose beneath. Yellow-green flowers, pistillate axillary few-flowered racemes to 120mm long, sepals to 5mm long, pilose carpels, oval orange fruit

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• FOG
• Gleason & Moldenke