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Mansoa hymenaea
Mansoa hymenaea
- Botanic Family
- Bignoniaceae
- Author
- (de Candolle) A.H. Gentry
Common Names
- Garlic-vine
- Bejuco de Ajo
- Nusco (Cabollin - Mexico)
- Mata de Ajo
Geographical Habitats
- Belize
- Acre
- Alagoas
- Amapá
- Amazonas
- Bahia
- Ceará
- Espírito Santo
- Maranhão
- Minas Gerais
- Pará
- Paraiba
- Pernambuco
- Piauí
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rio Grande
- Rondonia
- Roraima
- São Paulo
- Sergipe
- Tocantins - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Guerrero
- Michoacan - Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Suriname
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
Flowering Times
- Jan (Mexico)
- Feb (Costa Rica)
Fruiting Times
Woody tendril glabrous liana with strong garlic odour, lenticellate stems, terminal trifid tendrils. Gglabrous leaves 2-foliolate leaves, leaflets to 110mm x 90mm. Terminal or lateral many-flowered racemes or panicles to 200mm long of 75mm long pale lilac to purple flowers with 20mm lobes, or pink or white with pink to white throat, glabrate calyx to 8mm x 4mm, pink corolla to 50mm long. Fruit a yellow-green to light brown capsule to 500mm x 20mm
Further References
- Huxley 1992
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Llamas 2003
- Neotrop
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- Fedde
- FOPR
- Kew
- Standley