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Macleania rupestris

Botanic Family

Ericaceae

Author

(HBK) A.C. Smith

Common Names

• Cacaguito (Colombia)
• Uva Camarona (Colombia)
• Chamburo (Ecuador)
• Chaquilulo (Ecuador)
• Choglón (Ecuador)
• Chupa Lulún (Ecuador)
• Colca Macho (Ecuador)
• Gualicón (Ecuador)
• Hualicón Llucho (Ecuador)
• Joyapa (Quichua)
• Joyapa Blanca (Ecuador)
• Joyapita (Ecuador)
• Sagalita (Ecuador)
• Yurac Joyapa (Ecuador)

Geographical Habitats

• Peru
• Costa Rica
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Venezuela
• Colombia
• Ecuador

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• forest
• montane forest
• sub-alpine rain forest.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Aug
• Oct
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Oct

Liana, small tree or shrub with downy branchlets. Coraceous leaves glabrous above downy beneath to 120mm x 20mm, deep crimson when young. Pinkish-white flowers, red tube, white at mouth, inflorescences axillary racemes to 20-flowered with a subtending bractlet to 3mm long, corolla to 24mm long, glabrous calyx with tube to 3mm long, glabrous pale purple corolla whitish at apex to 22mm x 6mm with lobes to 2mm. Fruit bluish black berry to 15mm diameter, edible.

Further References

• Neotrop
• NYBG
• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Standley