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Chondrodendron tomentosum

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

Ruiz & Pavon

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Common Names

• Schinqui Schinqui (Bolivia)
• Schicshi Huasca (Quichua)
• Wild Grape (Peru)
• Ice Vine
• Pariera
• Velvet Leaf
• Curare

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Minas Gerais
• Piaui
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guadeloupe
• Panama
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Inundated areas
• floodplain
• riverside
• forest

Flowering Times

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

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• Jun
• Nov

Twining woody cauliflorous perennial liana with pubescent branchlets. Leaves to 150mm x 150mm, pubescent or glabrous above & pubescent beneath. Axillary panicles to 250mm long, pale yellow or white flowers, 9 outer sepals 1mm long, 6 inner sepals 3.5mm long, glabrous violet-black oval drupe 25mm diameter, male flowers 3mm diameter in axillary racemes to 225mm long, female flowers in spiked fascicles to 85mm long, yellowish tomentum,

Medicinal, poison, food

Further References

• Mobot
• Sturtevant 1919
• Neotrop
• Bodkin
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke