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Amphilophium paniculatum

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Kunth

Propagation

S.

Common Names

• Cipo de Agua
• Liana de Cuello

Geographical Habitats

• N. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Dominica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest margins
• secondary growth
• disturbed areas
• forest
• thickets
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Aug-Oct (Puerto Rico) Dec (Belize)

Fruiting Times

• Jan (Belize)

Pubescent tendril liana or climbing shrub with verrucose lenticellate, glabrous white 6-ribbed stems. Rufescent hairy or downy 2-foliolate leaves, leaflets to 150mm x 100mm, upper surface sometimes pubescent, lower with pubescent veins, lepidoted on both surfaces, trifid tendrils. Tomentose axillary & terminal panicles to 200mm long with decidous bracts to 5mm long, fragrant 35mm long flowers opening yellow changing to white then purple or pink, 3-5-lobed tomentose calyx to 13mm long with appendages to 5mm long, glabrous reddish-purple bilabiate corolla to 40mm long with tube 7mm long. Flattened smooth fruit capsule green maturing brown, to 150mm x 30mm.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• NYBG
• NHN
• Neotrop
• Zuchowski
• G. Don
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• Smithsonian
• Rodriguesia
• FOPE
• Kew
• SAFIO
• Standley