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Bignonia aequinoctialis
Bignonia aequinoctialis
- Botanic Family
- Bignoniaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
Common Names
- Bejuco Blanco
- Bejuco Colorado
- Bejuco de Danta
- Vaquero Blanca
- Garlic Vine
- Kyetthun-hpyu-nwe (Myanmar)
- Liana de la Sierra
- Nwe-pay (Myanmar)
- Ajillo (El Salvador)
Geographical Habitats
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Acre
- Amapá
- Amazonas
- Espírito Santo
- Goiás
- Maranhão
- Mato Grosso
- Pará
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rondonia
- Roraima - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Leeward Islands
- Guerrero
- Michoacán - Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Virgin Islands - USA
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Secondary forest margin
- riverside
- swamp margins
- floodplain forest
- disturbed vegetation
- woodland
- coastal forest & shrubland
- riverside
- thickets
Flowering Times
- May (Mexico)
- Apr (Costa Rica)
Fruiting Times
Glabrous high-climbing twining shrub to 3.3m with glabrous lenticellate striated branches, simple tendrils. Glabrous coriaceous or sparsely hairy 2-foliolate leaves, leaflets to 150mm x 75mm. Terminal or axillary panicles, corymbs or racemes to 200mm long with bracts, of fragrant funnel-shaped 10mm flowers, white to lilac-pink with magenta veins in yellow throat to 76mm long, coriaceous villous or glabrous calyx 9mm x 7mm, pilose pink or white corolla with yellow throat to 90mm with 60mm hairy lobes. Green glabrous flattened capsule 430mm x 30mm. Crushed leaves smell of garlic
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Huxley 1992
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Llamas 2003
- Neotrop
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- Fedde
- VOPR
- USNH
- Botanicus
- FOPE
- Kew
- SAFIO
- Standley