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Psiguria triphylla

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Miquel) C. Jeffrey

Common Names

• Soewo (Suriname)
• Sbijhika (Suriname)

Geographical Habitats

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

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riverside
• cloud forest
• lagoon edge
• pasture
• floodplain forest
• disturbed areas
• coastal forest

Flowering Times

• All year (Mexico)

Fruiting Times

• All year

Dioecious glabrous tall simple tendril liana with 1-5-lobed or entire coriaceous glabrous leaves to 184mm x 178mm. Corymb 250mm long of 20mm long bright red or orange flowers with white centres, male green calyx hirsute outside to 15mm x 4.8mm, villous inside, lobes 1mm x 0.75mm, sepals sparsely pilose to 4.8mm long, petals to 12mm x 10mm, petals have dense glands or hairs on the outside, pistillate flowers terminal with green calyx to 41mm x 6.5mm with sepals to 2.3mm, petals to 9.5mm x 9.5mm. Fruit to 70mm long, green aging yellow with longitudinal lines to 45mm x 24mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• NHN
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• Fedde
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Standley
• Academia (Systematic Botany)