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Adelobotrys adscendens

Botanic Family

Melastomataceae

Author

(Swartz) Triana

Propagation

S.

Common Names

• Tietie (Belize)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Amazonas - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riparian forest
• coastal
• swamp forest
• floodplain
• primary forest
• forest
• montane woodland

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Jun
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Oct

Herbaceous or woody epiphytic twining climbing vine or parasitic shrub with adventitious roots or tree, tetragonal glabrate branches clothed in brown bristly down when young. Downy petioles, panicles & young leaves. Fleshy green glabrous denticulate leaves to 150mm x 80mm+. Downy terminal & lateral corymbs or panicles to 400mm long of pink, pale yellow or white 5-petalled flowers, glabrate calyx. calyx tube to 7mm x 5mm with teeth to 0.5mm, pale yellow petals to 10mm long. Fruit a brown ribbed capsule when mature 8mm long.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• FOG
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Standley