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Orthomene schomburgkii

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

(Miers) Barneby & Krukoff

Common Names

• Cipo Azeitona
• Chawm-aat (Makú)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Espírito Santo
• Goiás
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Pernambuco
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rondônia
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Amazonas - Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• forest edge
• floodplain forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Mar
• May
• Sep
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Oct

High climbing mostly glabrous twining liana with coriaceous mucronulate leaves to 100mm x 40mm. Solitary or few-fascicled yellow flowers to 6mm diameter with bractlets, outer sepals 1mm long, glabrous yellow inner sepals to 8mm long, fleshy petals to 3mm long. Male inflorescence 25mm long, single-flowered. Fleshy coriaceous green drupe maturing orange 25mm long x 10mm

Medicinal, food

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• HUBM
• Gleason & Moldenke