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Piptocarpha gutierrezii

Botanic Family

Asteraceae

Author

Cuatrecasas

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riverside
• disturbed areas
• forests
• rocky slopes
• montane rainforest

Flowering Times

• Occasionally year round (Peru)

Fruiting Times

• Occasionally year round (Peru)

Vine, scandent shrub to 6m or tree with glabtrate branches. Toothed leaves to 160mm x 80mm glabrous above, tomentose beneath. Axillary & terminal panicles of heads with 6 florets, white flowers somewhat fragrant to 7mm x 3mm, straw cloured phyllaries with brown-purple tips, white glabrate corolla to 4mm long with lobes to 2mm long.

Further References

• NYBG
• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE