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Borismene japurensis

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

(Martius) Barneby

Common Names

• Gogó de Guariba
• Bejuco de Remedio (Spanish) Ambi Huasea (Quichua)
• Buguiontamemo (Huaorani)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Bahia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Coastal & amazonian forests
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Feb-Apr (Colombia)

Fruiting Times

• Jul (Bolivia)
• Jan-Aug (Ecuador)

Large woody vine, canopy liana or shrub with tendrils & hanging glabrous branches. Coriaceous glabrous leaves to 130mm x 65mm. Yellow-green flowers, racemes to 8 flowers, staminate panicles to 150mm long with greenish-yellow flowers with 6 sepals, outer 3 to 2.6mm x 2mm, inner 3 sepals 2.8mm x 2.2mm, 6 whitish petals 1.5mm x 1mm. Orange-red fruits to 30mm x 15mm

Medicinal use of stem for fevers

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke