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Bonamia maripoides

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Choisy) Hallier f.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Pará
• Perambuco - Brazil
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Panama
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• moist forest
• virgin forest

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Sep
• Oct Mar
• Apr
• Aug
• Oct (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• Aug
• Nov Feb
• Mar
• May
• Jun
• Jul (Brazil)

Twining perennial liana with woody glabrescent stems to 20m+. Leaves to 140mm x 75mm, glabrous above & golden-hairy beneath. Axillary umbelliform cymes with small bracts, white flowers, coriaceous sepals, white corolla to 25mm long. 8-valved brown hairy outside globose capsule to 6mm x 5mm hairy at apex.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew