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Aegiphila deppeana

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

Steudel

Common Names

• Sauco Monte (Colombia)

Geographical Habitats

• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Tabasco
• Tamaulipas
• Veracruz - Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• secondary vegetation
• primary vegetation
• riverside
• forest edge

Flowering Times

• Oct-Jun(Nic) Mar
• Nov Mar (Mexico)

Fruiting Times

• Dec-Jun(Nic) Sep

Scandent shrub, climbing woody vine or tree to 6m with tomentose branches. Leaves to 150mm long, glabrate above & tomentose beneath. Many-flowered axillary & terminal cymes or panicles of 4mm small reddish, yellow or green flowers, tomentose 4-toothed calyx 4mm long, white or pale yellow glabrous corolla, tube to 12mm long, 4 lobes 4mm long. 10mm yellow & orange fruit.

Further References

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