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Psiguria umbrosa

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth) C. Jeffrey

Common Names

• Pasana (Venezuela)

Geographical Habitats

• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Colombia
• French Guiana
• Mexico
• Peru
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Venezuela Antilles
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• gallery forest edge
• riverside
• shrubland
• cut-over woodland
• riverine forest

Flowering Times

• All year

Fruiting Times

• Jan

Dioecious glabrous simple tendril climber with, 3-5-parted glabrous denticulate leaves to 180mm x 70mm, variegated foliage? 200mm long panicles or corymbs of 18m orange or coral-red flowers, staminate flowers with green calyx speckled darker to 21mm x 6.5mm, sepals to 3.5mm, orange petals to 16mm x 11mm, axillary pistillate flowers with green calyx to 27.5mm x 6.5mm, sepals to 2mm long, orange petals to 6.5mm x 2.9mm. Light green fruit with darker green stripes to 39mm x 18mm.

Further References

• Neotrop
• Mobot
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• HUBM
• Academia (Systematic Botany)