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Abuta steyermarkii

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

(Standley) Standley

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Chiapas
• Oaxaca - Mexico
• Nicaragua

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• forest

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug

Large woody tendril vine with pilose stems. Coriaceous pilose leaves to 160mm x 140mm. Pistillate flowers in dense many-flowered axillary spikes to 50mm long, sepals to 3mm long, tomentose outside & glabrous within. Tomentose carpels. Yellow hairy drupe to 22.5mm x 12mm.

Further References

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