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Acalypha scandens

Botanic Family

Euphorbiaceae

Author

Bentham

Common Names

• Sacha Ishanga (Peru)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Mexico
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riversides
• creekside
• inundated forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Apr

High-climbing liana or shrub with glabrate branches. Serrate scabrous glabrate leaves to 160mm x 90mm. Green & red monoecious flowers, male spikes to 200mm long, male flowers white, female pink, female spikes to 1m long. Fruit a capsule 3mm wide, hirsute dentate fruiting bracts to 3.5mm long

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Kew