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Combretum rotundifolium

Botanic Family

Combretaceae

Author

Richard

Hardiness Zone

10 to 11

Common Names

• Monkey-brush
• Escobilla
• O-reé-ma-ka (Tukano)

Geographical Habitats

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

Natural Habitats

• Riverside

Flowering Times

• May (Colombia)

Fruiting Times

• Jan

Liana, glabrous mucronate leaves to 110mm x 45mm, glabrous above & pale yellow lepidote beneath. Terminal spikes to 80mm long, of 30mm bright orange-scarlet flowers with red-lepidote calyx, yellow stamens, petals to 2mm x 1mm, filaments to 25mm long. White fleshy 4-winged lepidote fruits to 30mm x 30mm.

Medicinal

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Llamas 2003
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• HUBM