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Solanum dolichohachis

Botanic Family

Solanaceae

Author

Bitter

Common Names

• Chiro Nairamo Tape (Cayapa)
• Chinba Chuba Tape (Cayapa)

Geographical Habitats

• Ecuador

Natural Habitats

• Primary forest
• coastal
• inundated areas

Flowering Times

• Apr-Dec (Ecuador)

Fruiting Times

• Apr (Ecuador)

Perennial high-climbing shrub or liana with glabrous stems to 8m+. Hairy coriaceous leaves to 110mm x 45mm. White flowers in short terminal or extra-axillary racemes to 550mm long of 40-50 flowers, calyx 2mm long with tube 1mm & lobes to 1mm x 2mm, hairy white to greenish-white corolla to 5mm x 10mm with lobes 4.5mm x 2mm. Glabrous oval scarlet fruit.

Further References

• Mobot
• Botanicus
• Neotrop
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• Academia (Systematic Botany)