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Anomospermum chloranthum

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

Diels

Common Names

• Huevo de Coto (Peru)
• Max-so-ae-o (Siona)
• Veneno de Churuco
• Cotohuayo (Peru)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Mato Grosso
• Pará
• Rondônia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Panama
• Peru
• W. Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Lake shore. Seasonally inundated areas
• forest
• riverside
• rain forest
• disturbed forest

Flowering Times

• Jan (Ecuador)
• Jun (Peru)

Fruiting Times

• May (Bolivia)
• May-Jun (Ecuador)

Large twining mostly glabrous vine to 33m. Coriaceous leaves to 120mm x 60mm. Staminate panicles to 180mm x 30mm, greenish to orange flowers, outer sepals 1.2mm x 1mm, inner sepals 5mm x 4.5mm, petals to 2.5mm x 2.5mm. Fruit mottled green & white maturing yellow-orange to 30mm long.

Edible fruit

Further References

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