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Amphilophium obovatum

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

(Sandwith) L.G. Lohmann

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Pará - Brazil
• Guyana
• SE. Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riverside on bushes
• scrub savanna
• streamside woodland
• forest edge

Flowering Times

• Jun
• Oct
• Nov (Guyana) Apr
• May
• Dec (Venezuela)

Fruiting Times

• May (Guyana) Mar
• May
• Dec (Venezuela)

Tendrilled liana to 3m with bifoliolate leaves with trifid tendrils, coriaceous leaflets to 90mm x 40mm. Axillary or terminal racemes to 150mm long with bracts & bracteoels to 1mm, fragrant white flowers with creamy yellow throat, calyx 9mm x 10mm, curved corolla to 50mm x 20mm with limb to 40mm diameter. 75mm fruit pods

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Kew