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Aegiphila vitelliniflora

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

Klotzsch ex Walpers

Common Names

• Café do Mato
• Caferana
• Fetoró-ey

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Alagos
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Espírito Santo
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Paraná
• Pernambuco
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rio Grande do Norte
• Rondônia
• Roraima
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Paraguay
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Primary or secondary forest
• coastal
• disturbed areas
• rocky slopes
• inundated forest
• plantations
• riversides
• forest margins
• riverside
• woodland
• savanna
• thorn scrub
• marshland

Flowering Times

• Oct-Dec (Brazil) Aug (Ecuador)

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• Jul (Ecuador) May
• Nov (Brazil)

Shrub or liana to 10m with tomentose branchlets. Leaves to 140mm x 75mm, pilose on midrib above & veins beneath. Axillary & terminal cymes or panicles to 150mm x 100mm with bracts & bractlets to 5.2mm long. 5mm long yellow-green or cream fragrant flowers, strigose or pilose yellow-green calyx to 5.2mm long with 4 lobes 1mm long, yellowish or white fleshy corolla with 5mm tube & 4 lobes to 4mm long. Yellow glabrous drupe 11mm x 8mm becoming dark red

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew
• Fl. do Brasil