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Odontadenia nitida

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Vahl) Mueller of Aargau

Common Names

• Unhay Uaponima (Huaorani)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Seasonally inundated areas
• forest edge
• swamp
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

Herbaceous evergreen glabrous twining vine with 50mm long pale yellow or white flowers, with red at base & outside in axillary panicles or racemes, corolla tube swollen at top, glabrous shiny leaves with rust-colour beneath

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Herklots 1976
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• Bodkin
• FB
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• Kew