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Fridericia spicata

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

(Bureau & K. Schumann) L.G. Lohmann

Common Names

• Cipó Quebrador
• Cipo ver Melho
• Cigana do Mato

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Amapá
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Panama
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Riverine forest

Flowering Times

• Apr (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• Jun
• Jul
• Dec

Glabrous liane with simple tendrils, striate stems. Leaflets to 450mm x 250mm. Terminal racemes to 350mm long with bracts & bractlets of fragrant purple to pink 30mm long flowers with 5mm lobes in a long spike, tube to 30mm long, calyx to 5mm x 6mm, tomentose or puberulent corolla to 30mm x 20mm with lobes 7mm x 7mm. Fruit a flattened capsule darkening to brown with age 280mm long x 14mm wide

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Fedde
• Kew