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Dalechampia cissifolia

Botanic Family

Euphorbiaceae

Author

Poeppig & Endlicher

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• coastal
• floodplain forest
• thickets

Flowering Times

• All year (Nic)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Nic)

Herbaceous twining vine with hispid branchlets, stems densely pilose. Trifoliate or simple leaves puberulent on veins, pilose above becoming glabrate, velutinous-pilose beneath, leaflets to 100mm x 50mm. Axillary inflorescences, 3-lobed denticulate green bracts to 25mm long, yellow flowers, 10-12 sepals to 15mm long. Sparsely setose or pubescent fruit capsule 9mm across green ripening brown

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• FOG
• FOPE
• Standley
• Kew