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Pleonotoma variabilis

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

(Jacquin) Miers

Common Names

• Tarca de Arroyo

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• lakeside
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Mar-May (Nic)
• May (Trinidad)

Fruiting Times

• Dec-Jan (Nic)

Liana or large glabrous climbing shrub with tetragonal branches, trifid tendrils. Glabrous leaflets to 90mm long. Terminal racemes of 100mm fragrant pale yellow flowers, tube yellow, lobes cream, toothed calyx to 3.5mm long, white corolla with yellow throat to 60mm long. Fruit a capsule to 300mm long

Further References

• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Fedde
• Botanicus
• Kew
• Standley