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Cayaponia ophthalmica

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

R.E. Schultes

Cultivated

C, medicine

Common Names

• Tsun-jo (Puinave)
• Mun-te-ka (Makuna)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Lowland rainforest
• disturbed forest
• floodplain forest
• montane forest
• riverside
• lakeside
• forest edge

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Oct
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Aug
• Sep
• Dec

High-climbing robust herbaceous tendril liana. Coriaceous trilobed leaves to 180mm x 115mm, bifid tendrils. 60-100 flowered fascicles with violet or red bracteoles to 30mm x 14mm. Greenish-white flowers 40mm long with white fringe hairs, male flowers with greenish-white coriaceous glabrous calyx with tube to 20mm long & yellow teeth 8mm x 5mm, white corolla 10mm x 6mm. Female flowers 24mm long. Fruit to 30mm long maturing red.

Medicinal

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• NHN
• Neotrop
• WFO
• HUBM