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Cheiloclinium cognatum

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

(Miers) A.C. Smith

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Distrito Federal
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rondonia
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Primary forest
• tropical lowland
• seasonally inundated
• wet forest
• secondary forest
• forest streamside
• forest edge
• creekside forest
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Scrambling glabrous liana which starts as a scandent shrub then branches start to twine to 12m high, purplish branchlets. Entire or crenate thick leaves to 200mm x 80mm. Red-brown flowers in axillary few-flowered racemose cymes or panicles to 100mm long with small bracts, yellow inside, petals 2.6mm x 2mm. Yellow-orange fruit 35mm x 30mm often lenticellate.

Edible fruit, medicinal uses

Further References

• Mobot
• NHN
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• FOPE
• Rusby
• The Plant List 2