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Tropaeolum moritzianum

Botanic Family

Tropaeolaceae

Author

Klotzsch

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed forest
• volcanic forest
• wet montane forest

Flowering Times

• May
• Sep-Nov (Nic)

Fruiting Times

Glabrous annual climber with angled stem. 5-7 lobed leaves to 90mm x 100mm mucronate lobes, deep green above, silvery below. Dark red & yellow flowers to 40mm long with yellow spur to 25mm long, sepals brick-red on outside yellow on inside 12mm long, dentate yellow petals longer than sepals with 5 teeth at apex, 10mm long fruit,

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• Standley