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Stizophyllum perforatum

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

(Chamisso) Miers

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bahia
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Paraná
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• SE. Mexico
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Riverine forest
• scrubland
• forest
• shrubland
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Jan (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

• Jan

Simple tendril liana with villous stems, leaves to 85mm x 40mm, densely pilose above, ferruginous pilose on veins beneath. Axillary or terminal few-flowered racemes with minute bracts and bracteoles, 65mm long cream to white flowers marked purple-pink with 13mm lobes, pilose fimbriate 5-toothed calyx, teeth 10mm x 10mm, 5-lobed corolla 45mm x 20mm, pilose outside. Fruit a capsule to 500mm long brown x 6mm wide

Further References

• Huxley 1992
• NYBG
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• Kew