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Aegiphila cordata

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

Poeppig ex Schauer

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Acre
• Mato Grosso
• Rondônia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riverside
• montane
• forest margins
• flood plain forest

Flowering Times

• Jul (Colombia) Oct
• Dec (Peru) Nov (Ecuador)

Fruiting Times

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

Liana to 30m, tree or shrub with pubescent stems & leaf veins. Hirsute leaves to 200mm x 100mm, creamy-yellow flowers in dense axillary panicles or cymes 55mm x 30mm with bractlets to 30mm long, pubescent yellow-green sepals to 5mm long, red-purple corolla, corolla tube to 18mm long with lobes 3.5mm x 1.5mm. Yellow, orange or red fruit

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew