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Morisonia flexuosa
Morisonia flexuosa
- Botanic Family
- Capparaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
Common Names
- Porotillo
- Linga
- Sebastián (Ecuador)
- Burro
- Palo de Burro
- Palinguam
- Palawang
- Black Witty
- Bottle Wiss
- Goat Wiss
- Limber Caper
- Mostazo
Geographical Habitats
- N. Argentina
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Alagoas
- Bahia
- Ceará
- Espirito Santo
- Maranhão
- Minas Gerais
- Pará
- Paraiba
- Rio de Janeiro
- Santa Catarina - Brazil
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Guatemala
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Netherlands Antilles
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Venezuela
- Venezuelan Antilles
- Florida
- Virgin islands - USA
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- scrubland
- forest edge
- disturbed forest
- rain forest
- forest remnant
- streamside
- shrubland
- coastal forests & thicket
- riverside
- woodland
- pondside
- montane areas
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Shrub, tree, scandent liana or trailing glabrous shrubby vine to 9m. Coriaceous glabrous leathery leaves 120mm x 50mm, velvety branches, white-pubescent branchlets & underside of leaves. Nocturnal axillary panicles or terminal racemes to 50mm across of white or purple flowers with unpleasant odour, petals green, pink or yellow-green to 30mm long, 4 sepals to 7mm long, white filaments. Orange, yellow or pale brown pendant follicles to 200mm x 20mm, fruits segmented like legume pods.
Medicinal
Further References
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- FOPE
- Gleason & Moldenke
- SAFIO
- Schlechtendahlia