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Gurania bignoniacea
Gurania bignoniacea
- Botanic Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Author
- (Poeppig & Endlicher) C. Jeffrey
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Bolivia
- Alagoas
- Amazonas
- Bahia
- Pará - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guyana
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Suriname
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Forest margin
- tropical rainforest
- secondary forest
- forest edge
- disturbed areas
- riverside
- riverine forest
- shrubland
- forest remnant
Flowering Times
- Feb-Jul (Colombia)
- Feb-Sep (Nicaragua)
Fruiting Times
Hairy or glabrous dioecious high-climbing simple tendril herbaceous vine. Trifoliolate leaves with spinulose denticulate leaflets, terminal leaflet to 200mm x 100mm, lateral leaflets to 100mm x 40mm. Glabrous tendrils. Male raceme to 260mm long up to 50 yellow-orange flowers, red strigose-puberulent calyx tube 10mm x 4mm, sepals to 9mm long, reddish or yellow petals to 5mm long. Solitary pistillate flowers. Round light & dark green fruit to 60mm x 25mm
Medicinal
Further References
- Mobot
- NYBG
- NHN
- Neotrop
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- FOPE
- HUBM
- JAA
- Standley