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Aegiphila elata
Aegiphila elata
- Botanic Family
- Lamiaceae
- Author
- Swartz
Common Names
- Bejuco de Peine Mico (Mexico)
- Guairo Santo
- Guaro
- Guauro
- Spirit Weed
- Juan Grande
Geographical Habitats
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Acre
- Pará
- Pernambuco - Brazil
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Oaxaca - Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Florida - USA
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Riverside
- disturbed areas
- forest
- cut-over forest
- forest edge
- grassland
- thickets
- coastal
- montane areas
- shrubland
- swampland
- thickets
- creekside
- savanna
- secondary vegetation
- woodland
- primary forest
Flowering Times
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul Mar
- Apr
- Jul
- Aug (Mexico)
- Dec (Panama) Aug (Colombia)
Fruiting Times
- Jan
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov Apr-Sep (Jamaica) Aug (Mexico) Aug (Colombia)
Liana, shrub or tree to 10m, hairy when young. Glabrous papery leaves to 150mm x 70mm with toothed margins or hairy on veins beneath. Terminal & axillary cymes or panicles to 180mm long, of cream to dull yellow flowers to 10mm long, 4 lobed puberulent green calyx to 4mm long, yellow corolla tube to 8mm long & 4 lobes 6mm long. Yellow or orange fruit to 15mm x 8mm with persistent calyx.
Medicinal uses.
Further References
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- BMJ
- Gleason & Moldenke
- Kew
- Standley