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Camonea umbellata
Camonea umbellata
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) A.R. Simões & Staples
- Propagation
- S.
Common Names
- Churristate
- Aguinaldo Amarillo
- Yellow Morning Glory
- Kya-hin (Myanmar)
- Zizaw (Myanmar)
- Hoa bîm bîm (Vietnam)
- Liane (à) Berceau (Guadeloupe)
- Liane à Malingres (Guadeloupe)
- Liane douce jaune (Martinique)
- Fleur Patate Jeune (Martinique)
- Liane à Tonnelle (Martinique)
- Hog Vine (Barbados)
- Batatilla (Colombia)
Geographical Habitats
- N. Argentina
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Cameroon
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Savador
- French Guiana
- Gambai
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Ivory Coast
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Liberia
- Mali
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Sierra Leone
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Florida - USA
- Venezuela
- Venezuelan Antilles
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Disturbed areas
- shrubland
- riverside
- montane rainforest
- coastal
- pasture
- thickets
- marshland
- grassland
- coastal
- forest
- woodland.
Flowering Times
- All year Nov-Apr (Puerto Rico)
Fruiting Times
- All year Nov-Apr (Puerto Rico)
Perennial herbaceous slightly woody twining downy or glabrous climber or creeper, blackish stems or white-tomentose later glabrescent. Glabrous or hairy mucronulate simple denticulate leaves with puberulous veins, to 170mm x 120mm slightly villous above, more so beneath sometimes lobed. Axillary umbels, corymbs or cymes of 1-40 flowers, with minute bracts, of 35mm scented white or orange-yellow flowers to 40mm long with yellow eye, glabrous coriaceous mucronate yellow-green sepals to 13mm x 8mm, lobes of yellow corolla bearded at top, corolla villous outside to 40mm x 20mm, tube to 5mm across. 4-valved brown glabrous or silky tomentose fruit capsule to 12mm x 8mm with persistent sepals.
Envirnomental use, food, material, medicinal.
Further References
- Herklots 1976
- Jones & Gray 1977
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- FI
- J. Lindley
- JDH
- G. Don
- Biology-Flora
- The Plant List 2
- FA
- VOPR
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- FOMP
- Flora Malesiana
- JAA
- GBS
- F Indochine
- Kew
- Standley
- Academia