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Aegiphila filipes

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

Martius & Schauer

Common Names

• Chirapa Sacha

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Pará - Brazil
• Colomba
• Costa Rica
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Primary forest
• floodplain
• forest
• riverside
• riverine forest
• pasture

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Aug
• Oct
• Nov Aug (Colombia)

Vine, tree or shrub with glabrescent branchlets. Puberulent leaves to 180mm x 75mm with unpleasant odour. Axillary cymes & terminal panicles with bractlets to 12mm long. Cream flowers 6mm long, pale green calyx to 4mm long, white, yellow or light green glabrous corolla with tube to 6mm long & 4 lobes to 6mm long. 15mm lobed golden-orange fruit ripening red with fruiting calyx 6mm x 9mm.

Medicinal uses

Further References

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