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Dioclea virgata

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(L.C. Richard) Amshoff

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Espirito Santo
• Distrito Federal
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Gross do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Paraiba
• Paraná
• Pernambuco
• Piaui
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rondonia
• Roraima
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Tabasco - Mexico
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riverine forest
• streamside
• gallery forest
• disturbed areas
• pasture
• forest shrubland

Flowering Times

• Mar-May Aug
• Sep
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Mar-May Aug
• Sep
• Nov

High-twining hairy liana with reddish-brown woody stems to 6m. Trifoliate leaves, coriaceous leaflets, puberulent on veins above & pilose beneath to 100mm x 50mm. Hairy terminal panicles with bractlets 10mm long, 25mm long fragrant flowers purplish with lighter edges & a yellow patch in middle, glabrous calyx to 10mm long, standard 25mm long. Strigose rusty hairy fruit to 120mm long x 20mm maturing brown.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• HUA