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Adelobotrys scandens

Botanic Family

Melastomataceae

Author

(Aublet) de Candolle

Common Names

• Mullaquilla Liana (Peru)
• Rifarillo en Liana (Peru)

Geographical Habitats

• Amazonas
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Peru
• Suriname

Natural Habitats

• Swampy forest
• seasonally inundated forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Oct (Brazil)
• Nov (Colombia)
• Sep (Ecuador)
• Jun (Peru)

Fruiting Times

• Nov (Colombia)
• Aug (Ecuador)
• Aug (Peru)

Scandent epiphytic twining shrub to 5m with serrated leaves clothed with rufous villi on both surfaces, becoming glabrous. Terminal cymes of 3 white flowers. Fruit a red-brown capsule 6mm x 5mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus