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Tanaecium pyramidatum

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

(L. Richard) L.G. Lohmann

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Pará
• Paraná
• Rondonia
• Roraima
• Tocantins - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guadeloupe
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Tropical rainforest
• riverside
• coastal
• disturbed areas
• riverine forest.

Flowering Times

• Feb-Jun (Nicaragua)
• May (Trinidad)
• Oct-Dec (Brazil) May (Colombia)

Fruiting Times

• Feb-Sep(Nicaragua)
• Nov
• Dec

High-climbing liana or shrub with striate, lenticellate branchlets & bifid tendrils. Glabrous coriaceous leaves, leaflets to 150mm x 80mm. Terminal & axillary puberulent panicles, thryrses or racemes with bracts and bracteoles, to 200mm+ long, fragrant pinkish-purple flowers with white in throat, coriaceous 5-toothed calyx to 10mm x 12mm, corolla to 70mm x 40mm with tomentum outside with 5 lobes 22mm x 15mm. Fruit yellow-green aging green tuberculate capsule to 610mm x 25mm

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Fedde
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Kew
• Standley