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Tetracera costata ssp. rotundifolia

Botanic Family

Dilleniaceae

Author

(Smith) Kubitzki

Common Names

• Bejuco de Agua (Venezuela)

Geographical Habitats

• Amazonas
• Goiás
• Mato Grosso
• Minas Gerais - Brazil
• Ecuador
• Venezuela
• Belize
• Costa Rica
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Bolivia
• Colombia
• Peru
• Suriname
• Guatemala
• French Guiana
• Trinidad

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• rain forest
• coastal
• disturbed areas
• riverside
• creekside
• riverine forest. Dried leaves used as sandpaper for finishing wood.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• May
• Jul
• Aug
• Nov

Fruiting Times

Rounded scabrous leaves, twining vine with terminal panicles of 10mm white flowers slightly fragrant in terminal panicles, fruit a glabrous capsule

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• NYBG
• FB
• The Plant List
• Botanicus