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Banisteriopsis schizoptera

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

(A. Jussieu) B. Gates

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bahia
• Distrito Federal
• Goiás
• Marahão
• Mato Grosso
• Minas Gerais
• Piauí
• Rio Grande
• São Paulo - Brazil

Natural Habitats

• Open marsh
• dense secondary forest along streams
• woodland
• montane
• thorn scrub

Flowering Times

• Nov-Jul (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

• Dev-Jul (Brazil)

Woody hairy twining liana or erect shrub to 3m becoming a vine. Lenticellate branches. Leaves to 85mm x 40mm, glabrous above, pubescent beneath. Terminal or axillary umbels with bracts & bracteoles to 2.2mm long of 20mm diameter white or pink aging cream or yellow flowers with fimbriate petals to 10mm x 9mm, posterior petal with pink spot, to 6mm x 6mm, sepals to 4.5mm x 3.5mm. Dark red nut 9mm x 6mm with wing to 28mm x 14mm becoming scarlet.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• Niedenzu
• Anderson
• The Plant List 2
• Smithsonian
• NYBG