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Fridericia patellifera

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

(Schlechtendahl) L.G. Lohmann

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Espírito Santo
• Goiás
• Mato Grosso
• Pará
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Rondonia
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riverine forest
• secondary forest
• lakeside
• streamside
• coastal
• floodplain forest
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Dec

Liana or tree with lenticellate pilose young branchlets, simple tendrils. Bifoliate leaves, coriaceous leaflets to 130mm x 80mm glabrous above sparsely pilose beneath. Axillary or terminal panicles to 250mm long, of fragrant flowers magenta-purple with white markings in throat to 43mm long with 12mm lobes, glabrate calyx puberulous outside to 11mm x 7mm with lobes to 1.3mm long, red when fresh, dark purple white tipped corolla to 40mm x 20mm, corolla tube 6mm x 2mm wth tomentose lobes to 25mm across. Fruit a glabrous lenticellate long pod to 390mm x 14mm

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• NHN
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• JAA
• FOPE
• Kew
• Standley