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Dioclea rosea

Botanic Family

Leguminoseae

Author

(Bentham) N. Zamora

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Maranhão
• Pará
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• SE. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• riverside
• seasonal inundation
• riverine shrubland

Flowering Times

• May-Dec Apr
• Jul
• Aug

Fruiting Times

• May-Dec

High-climbing twining herbaceous liana with strigillose stems. Glabrous trifoliate foliage, leaflets to 130mm x 70mm, strigose above & hairy beneath. Inflorescence of 2-3 flowers, 50mm long deep pink to pale magenta flowers with pale central spot, calyx 10mm long. Glabrate hairy fruit to 50mm long x 20mm maturing black.

Further References

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