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Aegiphila insignis

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

Moldenke

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• E. Bolivia
• Brazil
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• secondary forests
• primary forest

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar (Bolivia) Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Nov (Peru) Mar
• Apr (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jul (Peru)

Liana to 12m with tetragonal glabrescent branchlets. Terminal & axillary cymes to 100mm long or more with many bracts to 45mm x 20mm, yellow flowers, puberulent strigilose calyx to 4mm long with 4 lobes 1mm long, glabrous corolla tube to 18mm long with lobes to 4mm long. Orange-red fruit.

Further References

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