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Banisteriopsis confusa

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

B. Gates

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Rondônia
• São Paulo - Brazil
• SE. Paraguay
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• wooded pampas
• edge or savanna

Flowering Times

• Jan-Mar
• May-Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Dec (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

• Feb. Mar
• Jul
• Dec (Brazil)

Woody vine or liana to 3m, velvety lenticellate branchelets. Leaves to 120mm x 61mm with revolute margins, glabrate above & white-silky beneath. fragrant white or yellow flowers aging pink in 4-flowered terminal panicle or umbels with bract & bracteoles to 3mm long. Flowers to 30mm diameter, 5 sepals to 5mm x 3.2mm, 5 white fumbriate petals, 4 to 11.5mm x 10,5mm, posterior petal to 10,5mm x 9.5mm. Nut to 09mm x 5mm, wing to 30mm x 15mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• NYBG
• Niedenzu
• The Plant List 2
• NTBG