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Omphalea diandra

Botanic Family

Euphorbiaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Baboenoot (Suriname)
• Baboenotto (Suriname)
• Idaballie (Arawak)
• Mekoekwaire (Carib)
• Sitjo (Carib)
• Ouabé (Taki-taki)
• Sooke (Taki-taki)
• Graine de L'anse (French Guiana)
• Liane Papaye (French Guiana)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Maranhão
• Pará
• Rondonia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Nicagarua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• seasonally inundated areas
• coastal
• forest edge
• primary forest
• lowland forest
• riverside.

Flowering Times

• Mar
• Sep Jun-Dec (Guianas)

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jul
• Aug

High-climbing liana to 30m or tree with tendril-like stems, scabriusculous young branches. Coriaceous leaves to 270mm x 160mm glabrescent or velvety beneath. Panicles to 650mm long with 1-2 bracts to 70mm long, green to yellow flowers, male flowers to 2.5mm long with 4-5 staminate pubescent sepals to 3.5mm long, pistillate sepals to 2.5mm long, fleshy leathery green to greenish-yellow fruit to 120mm diameter

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• JAA
• Kew
• Smithsonian
• FOPE