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Thoracocarpus bissectus

Botanic Family

Cyclanthaceae

Author

(Velloso) Harling

Common Names

• Scraping Nibi (Creole)
• Bastard Nibi (Creole)
• Mamuri (Arawak)
• Akawari (Carib)
• Shai Shai (Carib)
• Ini (Waroa)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Rio de Janeiro
• Roraima
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• understorey
• forest edge
• disturbed forest edge
• coastal
• floodplain forest

Flowering Times

• All year (Guyana)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Guyana)

Hemi-epiphytic root-climbing liana. Leaves to 350mm long, blade split halfway. Terminal inflorescence with pendent spadix 40mm x 20mm x 20mm, yellow or green flowers, up to 9 white to straw-coloured spathes to 25mm x 15mmg. male flowers surrounfing female flowers to 6mm long with 10-15 tepals 4mm long, female flowers with 4 tepals 10mm wide. Olive-green to brown fruiting spadix to 100mm x 35mmfrom persistent tepals. Ripe fruit grey with yellow-orange seeds, axillary fruit

Further References

• Mobot
• NHN
• Neotrop
• NYBG
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Kew
• Academia ResearchGate