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Amphilophium arenarium

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

(A.H. Gentry) L.G. Lohmann

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Colombia
• S. Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riverside
• forest edge
• thickets.

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Oct (Colombia) Jan
• Mar
• Jun
• Dec (Venezuela)

Fruiting Times

• Nov (Venezuela)

Tendrilled vine with coriaceous 2-foliolate leaves to 150mm x 80mm with trifid tendril. Terminal racemes with bacts & bracteoles. Fragrant 65mm creamy-white flowers with yellow throats & pinkish tips, calyx to 10mm x 8mm, corolla tube to 50mm long 14mm wide at mouth with lobes 10mm long. Yellow-green puberulous capsule to 75mm x 25mm.

Ornamental

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Kew