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Aegiphila panamensis

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

Moldenke

Common Names

• Chirapa Sacha
• Tabaquero
• Palo de Zope
• Hombre Grande
• Hoja Babaso

Geographical Habitats

• Pará
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Chiapas - Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Amazonas - Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riverine woodland
• forests
• swampland
• inundated forest
• fence rows
• forest streamsides
• disturbed areas
• riverside
• forest edge
• coastal
• secondary vegetation
• thickets
• wooded swamps
• cloud forest
• flood plain forest

Flowering Times

• Aug (Brazil)
• Sep (Panama)
• May (Venezuela) Jan
• Mar
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov (Colombia) Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov (Costa Rica)

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Apr
• May
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov (Colombia) Feb
• Mar
• Dec (Nicaragua) Nov
• Dec (Costa Rica)

Vine, tree, herb or shrub to 15m with puberulent, glabrous or glabrate branchlets, strongly aromatic. Glabrate leaves to 220mm x 100mm. Axillary & terminal many-flowered pendent cymes to 90mm long forming a terminal panicle to 300mm x 130mm with bracts & bracteoles, fragrant yellowish or white flowers, glabrate green calyx to 3mm long, yellowish corolla, tube to 8mm long with 4 lobes to 6mm long. Glabrous tetragonal orange fruit becoming black to 10mm x 9mm with puberulent calyx to 4.5mm x 9mm. Orange or yellow cylindrical berries to 10mm diameter.

Further References

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