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Curarea tecunarum

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

Barneby & Krukoff

Common Names

• Abuta Amarilla
• Machap (Mayna Jivaro)
• Palahuasca (Quichua)
• Bicafo (Jamamandi)
• Oonta (Ecuador)
• Bekú (Deni)
• Hunta (Auca)

Geographical Habitats

• Amazonas
• Rondônia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riverside
• floodplain forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• May(Colombia)

Liana with striate young branchlets, glabrous stems. Coriaceous leaves to 200mm x 140mm, glabrous above & tomentulose or velvety beneath. Axillary cymose many-flowered panicles to 80mm long of yellow flowers, male flowers with 6-8 sepals to 1.8mm x 2mm, 6 petals to 0.6mm, brownish-cream corolla, sickly sweet-scented flowers. Yellow to brown glabrous drupe to 25mm long.

Fruit used for arrow poison, also cure for fevers, source of curare, food

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• HUBM
• Gleason & Moldenke
• IIAP