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Cissampelos andromorpha
Cissampelos andromorpha
- Botanic Family
- Menispermaceae
- Author
- de Candolle
Common Names
- Macotilla (Peru)
- Macumi (Venezuela)
- Jorro-Jorro (Brazil)
Geographical Habitats
- NE. Argentina
- Bolivia
- Amazonas
- Bahia
- Ceará
- Maranhão
- Minas Gerais
- Pará
- Paraná
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Santa Catarina
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Suriname
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Disturbed areas
- forests
- riverside
- primary forest
- riverine forest.
Flowering Times
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Nov
- Dec
Fruiting Times
Liana or shrubby twiner to 7m with striate glabrous to pilose stems. Glabrous or pilose mucronate leaves to 120mm x 110mm. Staminate many-flowered fasciculate dichasia to 260mm long with bracts to 13mm x 13mm & bracteoles to 1mm, frequently from old wood. Greenish-white or yellow staminate flowers with 4 sepals to 2mm x 1.3mm, corolla to 1mm x 1.5mm. Pistillate inflorescence of 4-10 small yellow-green or white flowers, rarely with mucronate bracts to 8mm x 9mm, pistillate flowers with 1 sepal to 1.8mm x 1.2mm & 1 petal to 1.1mm x 1.7mm. Glabrous or pilose red drupe to 7mm x 5mm.
Plants used as poison by Aguarumas
Further References
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- NYBG
- The Plant List 2
- Botanicus
- FOPE
- Gleason & Moldenke