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Banisteriopsis padifolia

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

(Niedenzu) B. Gates

Common Names

• Guish Ted (Ecuador)
• Canoa-huasca (Quichua)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• floodplain forest
• montane forest
• riverside. disturbed forest

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Jun (Colombia) Jan
• Feb
• May
• Jun
• Sep
• Nov
• Dec (Ecuador) Mar
• May
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov (Peru)

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Sep (Colombia) Dec (Ecuador)

Slender clambering vine or liana to 22m with glabrate branches. Glabrate leaves to 100mm x 40mm. Axillary racemes or panicles with bracts & bractlets to 2mm long, of yellow flowers to 16mm wide, orange at margins, petals to 4mm, claw to 2.5mm, reddish fruit

Further References

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