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Dolichandra unguis-cati
Dolichandra unguis-cati
- Botanic Family
- Bignoniaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) L.G. Lohmann
- Hardiness Zone
- Min7C 9-11
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Antilles
- N. Argentina
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Amazonas
- Bahia
- Ceará
- Espírito Santo
- Goiás
- Maranhão
- Mato Grosso
- Mato Gross do Sul
- Minas Gerais
- Pará
- Paraná
- Pernambuco
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Rondonia
- Roraima
- Santa Catarina
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Santo Domingo
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Uruguay
- Virgin Islands - USA
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Open forest & scrub
- seasonally inundated areas
- riverine forest
- disturbed areas
- riverside
- coastal
- montane areas
Flowering Times
- Mar
- Apr
- May-Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Dec Oct-Feb & Sep(Brazil) All year (Puerto Rico)
Fruiting Times
- Jan
- Mar
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Dec All year (Puerto Rico)
Evergreen woody glabrous twiner, trifid tendril curved at end, & adventitious root liana with 2-foliolate glabrous leaves, leaflets to 100mm x 40mm. Axillary panicles of up to 15 flowers, normally 1-3, fragrant 100mm long yellow flowers with orange nectar-guides in throat with 31mm lobes, calyx to 15mm, corolla to 80mm. Woody brown flattened follicles to 1250mm long, 19mm wide bright green maturing brown
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Herklots 1976
- Krussmann 1976
- van der Spuy 1976
- Beckett 1990
- Huxley 1992
- Nicholls 1995
- P & R 1997
- FOH
- RHS A-Z
- NYBG
- Llamas 2003
- Neotrop
- Bodkin
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- VOPR
- USNH
- Botanicus
- Smithsonian
- FOPE
- Kew
- SAFIO