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Mansoa alliacea

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

(Lamarck) A. Gentry

Common Names

• Bejuco de Ajo
• Garlic Vine
• Cipo-alho
• Ajo de la Montana (Spanish)
• Sacha Ajo (Quichua)
• Se-se Beque (Siona)
• Kyet-thun-phyu-nwe (Myanmar)
• Liane a L'ail (French)
• Ajos del Monte or Be'o-ho y Be'o-ja Pusanga (Ese Eja)
• Boens or Niaboens or Posatalu (Piro or Yine)
• Shansque Boains (Shipibo-conibo)
• Frukutitei (Suriname)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Seasonally inundated forest
• forest.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• May
• Jul
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

Woody liana or tree to 3m+ with tetragonal branches. Coriaceous bifoliolate leaves with terminal simple or trifid tendril, leaflets to 270mm x 180mm. Axillary few-flowered racemes or long thyrses of garlic scented white or purple flowers, 5-toothed calyx to 100mm x 11mm with frilly margin, violet corolla to 90mm long, lobes to 6mm. Brown ridged capsule 400mm x 210mm, glabrous above, minutely lepidote beneath

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Herklots 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Fedde
• FOPR
• USNH
• Botanicus
• Kew
• PMAP
• IIAP