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Tetracera volubilis

Botanic Family

Dilleniaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• White Kapidula (Creole)
• Red Kapadula (Creole)
• Beyuco Deaqua (Mexico)
• Raspa (Costa Rica)
• Raspa-guacal (Costa Rica)
• Hoja Chigüe (Nicaragua)
• Kapadula (Creole)
• Fire Rope (Creole)
• Kabuduli (Arawak)
• Tameyu-u (Carib)
• Ereyunde (Carib)
• Ero Karara (Waroa)
• Ero Simuida (Waroa)
• Ero Buabua (Waroa)
• Ero Kaukau (Waroa)

Geographical Habitats

• Guyana
• Barbados
• Belize
• Brazil
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Venezuela
• Cuba
• Jamaica

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• disturbed areas
• floodplain forest
• inundated forest
• riverside
• coastal thickets

Flowering Times

• Jun-Nov(Nic)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Apr (Nic)

Twining high-climbing woody liana, prostrate or scandent shrub with scabrous exfoliating branches. Dentate scabrous leaves to 170mm x 60mm, rough leaves toothed at end. Axillary or terminal many-flowered stellate scabrous pubescent racemes or panicles to 300mm long, with bracts 2mm long, fragrant white or yellow flowers to 8mm x 10mm, 5 sepals 5mm long, 5 dark red petals 6mm long. Hairy leathery 3-angled purplish-brown follicle to 17mm x 8mm x 6mm with persistent sepals.

Further References

• NHN
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• USNH
• Standley
• Academia ResearchGate