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Acalypha diversifolia
Acalypha diversifolia
- Botanic Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Author
- Jacquin
- Conservation Status
- Least concern
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Acre
- Amazonas
- Goiás
- Maranhao
- Minas Gerais
- Pará
- Rondonia
- Roraima - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guyana
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Suriname
- Trinidad
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Montane
- lakeside
- tropical forest
- forest
- riverside
- floodplain forest
- forest edge
- primary & secondary forest
- gallery forest
- cloud forest
- thickets
Flowering Times
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Sep
- Nov Jan-May (Nic) Sep & Jan-Mar (Colombia)
Fruiting Times
Liana, shrub or tree to 20m, pubescent young branchlets. Crenate-dentate glabrate or velutinous mucronate leaves to 200mm x 60mm. Monoecious flowers, axillary staminate spikes to 120mm x 4mm with an occasional pistillate flower at base, male flowers with bracts 4mm wide, sepals 0.5mm long, 1-5 basal female flowers, rarely all female, 1mm white or yellow-green flowers, female flowers with denate bracts, hirsute sepals. Green fruit a capsule 2mm x 3mm
Further References
- Neotrop
- NYBG
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- Kew
- FOPE
- Gleason & Moldenke
- Standley
- Rusby