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Ayenia rhamnifolia

Botanic Family

Malvaceae

Author

(Bentham) Christenhusz & Byng

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Mato Grosso
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Secondary vegetation
• waterside

Flowering Times

• Oct (Argentina) Sep (Brazil) Apr (Colombia) Jan
• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Jun (Venezuela)

Fruiting Times

• Jan (Bolivia)

Vining spiny shrub to 6m with mostly glabrous branches with recurved prickles to 5mm long. Coriaceous leaves to 60mm x 22mm, glabrous above & puberulent beneath. Up to 6-flowered axillary umbels of dark purple flowers, glabrous calyx 4.5mm long, petals 8mm long. Red fruit.

Further References

• Mobot
• FB
• FOPE
• Kew