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Ayenia hirsuta

Botanic Family

Malvaceae

Author

(Ruiz & Pavon) Christenhusz & Byng

Common Names

• Kari Kari (Bolivia)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• forest
• riverside
• shrublands

Flowering Times

• Mar
• Apr
• May (Bolivia) Oct (Colombia) Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jul
• Nov (Peru)

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Sep (Peru)

Armed hairy shrub or liana to 5m with 5-angled thorny stems. Crenate leaves hairy beneath, prickly on ribs & petioles to 130mm x 90mm. Greenish-cream to reddish flowers in many-flowered umbels, glabrous petals 7mm long, yellow at base, purple at tips, hirsute calyx 5.5mm long. Spiny fruit capsule 16mm diameter,

Further References

• Mobot
• FB
• Kew
• Botanicus
• FOPE