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Curarea candicans

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

(Richard ex de Candolle) Barneby & Krukoff

Common Names

• Shina-ten
• Devildoer (Guyana)
• Flat Bark (Guyana)
• Liane Amere (French Guiana)
• Granny Backbone (Creole)
• Tete Ahabo or Tete Abo (Aawak)
• Awarepuya Andïkïrï (Carib)

Geographical Habitats

• Amazonas
• Pará - Brazil
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Suriname
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• montane areas
• rain forest

Flowering Times

• Jul
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Sep

Branched twining woody liana with tomentose banches. Leaves to 200mm x 100mm, glabrous above & tomentulose beneath. Tomentulose staminate axillary panicles to 150mm x 100mm with bracts to 0.5mm x 0.3mm, blue-green flowers, 6 sepals, outer sepals 0.8mm x 0.6mm, inner sepals 1.5mm x 12mm, 6 glabrous petals to 0.6mm long. Pistillate inflorescence to 50mm long. Oblong brownish tomentose drupe to 22mm x 15mm.

Medicinal uses

Further References

• Mobot
• NHN
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Academia ResearchGate