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Bignonia nocturna
Bignonia nocturna
- Botanic Family
- Bignoniaceae
- Author
- (Barbosa Rodriques) L.G. Lohmann
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Bolivia
- Acre
- Amazonas
- Goiás
- Mato Grosso
- Pará
- Rondonia - Brazil
- Colombia
- French Guiana
- Panama
- Peru
- Suriname
- Mexico
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Seasonally inundated forest
- forest edges
- riverine forest. Medicinal uses
Flowering Times
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
Fruiting Times
Simple tendril liana with almond or garlic odour, mostly glabrous with striate branchlets. Leaflets to 150mm x 100mm. Nocturnal flowers white with greenish throat, curved tube, terminal racemose panicles to 70mm long of fragrant flowers, corolla to 160mm long with glabrous tube, lobes to 24mm long, limb to 50mm wide, calyx to 18mm long. Fruit a woody capsule to 200mm long, 48mm diameter.
Further References
- NYBG
- FB
- Mobot
- The Plant List 2
- FOPE
- Kew