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Coussapoa villosa

Botanic Family

Urticaceae

Author

Poeppig & Endlicher

Common Names

• Mata Palo (Bolivia)
• Mata Pau (Brazil)
• Apuí (Brazil- Portuguese)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Mato Grosso
• Pará
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Floodplain
• forest
• thickets
• coastal
• seasonally inundated forest
• riverside
• lakeside
• riverine forest

Flowering Times

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

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jun
• Oct

Hemi-epiphytic strangling vine or tree, densely hairy stems becoming glabrate. Coriaceous leaves to 400mm x 300mm, glabrous above & tomentellous beneath. Paired or solitary hirsute female flowers to 15mm diameter, multiflowered male corymbose panicles with bractlets, flowers to 15mm diameter, green to yellow flowers .

Further References

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