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Combretum laxum

Botanic Family

Combretaceae

Author

Jacquin

Common Names

• Bugi (Brazil)
• Ajuo-wo (Witoto)
• Aioho-ayo-o (Witotot)
• Der'gaw (Puinave)
• Teé-ye-pee (Kuripako)
• O-reé (Tukano)
• Beh'-ma (Barasana)
• Ne-he-be-mon (Kubeo)
• Ajuo-wo or Aioho-ayo-o (Witotos)
• Bois Blanc (Haiti)
• Liane à Bariques (Haiti)

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Goiás
• Minas Gerais - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Rainforest
• riverside
• secondary forest
• seasonally inundated areas
• swamp forest
• lake margin
• floodplain forest
• coastal forest
• thickets
• mangrove forest
• shrubland
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Sep-Dec (Colombia)
• Mar-Apr (Panama)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Sep (Panama)

High climbing twining glabrous or puberulous liana or shrub to 8m, branches with rufous pubescence. Glabrous coriaceous leaves to 200mm x 70mm, shortly pilose or glabrous above, densely punctate & rusty beneath. Axillary & terminal highly scented panicles or spikes with bracts to 4mm long, of creamy white, yellow or scarlet very fragrant flowers subtended by bracteole to 2mm long, rusty-pubescent calyx, tube 2mm x 2mm, 4 white glabrous petals 2mm diameter. Green 4-ridged fruit turning red or purple to 22mm long x 17mm wide with wings 7mm wide.

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Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• NHN
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• CPC
• Botanicus
• HUBM
• Gleason & Moldenke
• SAFIO
• Rusby