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Trichostigma octandrum
Trichostigma octandrum
- Botanic Family
- Phytolaccaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) H. Walter
Common Names
- Hoop vine
- Basket wiss
- Bejuco de paloma
- Bejuco de nasa
- Bejuco de palma
- Murette
- Liane a barriques
- Liane a terre
- Black Wiss
- Bejuco Negro (Colombia)
Geographical Habitats
- Antilles
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Florida-USA
- West Indies
- Mexico to N. Argentina
- Belize
- Costa Rica
- El Savador
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Barbados
- Bolivia
- Acre
- Amazonas
- Bahia
- Pará
- Paraná
- Santa Catarina - Brazil
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Venezuela
- Cuba
- Hispaniola
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Puerto Rico
- Tobago
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Virgin Islands
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- forest remnants
- disturbed areas
- riversides
- seasonally inundated areas
- floodplain forest
- coastal forest
- coastal grassland
- forest edge
- thickets
- montane areas
- shrublands
Flowering Times
- Nov-Jun All year (Nic) Apr-Oct (Puerto Rico)
Fruiting Times
- Nov-Jun All year (Nic) Apr-Oct (Puerto Rico)
Liana or glabrous scrambling woody shrub to 15m with lenticellate branches. Glabrous leaves 150mm x 60mm. Terminal or axillary 150mm long racemes with bracts to 2mm long & bractlets to 0.5mm long, of 10mm greenish-white flowers aging red, white or green sepals to 5mm x 3mm, petals absent. Fruit a 7mm x 6mm purple berry maturing black with persistent tepals, fruiting sepals 4mm long.
Further References
- net
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- NAF
- Smithsonian
- FOPE
- FOG
- SAFIO
- Standley
- HUA