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Tynanthus polyanthus

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

(Bureau ex Baillon) Sandwith

Common Names

• Mutuunakish (Achual Jivaro)
• Clavohusaca (Quichua) Bejuco de Clavo

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Pará
• Rondonia
• Roraima
• Tocantins - Brazil
• Colombia
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Secondary vegetation
• pasture
• riverside
• roadside
• forest edge
• forests

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul

Liana with 2-foliolate leaves sometimes with simple to trifid tendrils, mucronate leaflets to 100mm x 50mm. White, violet-striped or bright blue to pale yellow or orange flowers 7mm long with lower lobes to 3mm long in terminal or axillary panicles to 200mm long with bracts & bractlets , clove odour, denticulate bilabiate calyx to 2.5mm long, puberulent corolla to 7mm long. Fruit a somewhat woody dark brown capsule 300mm x 15mm

Tea made from bark. Medicinal uses, aphrodisiac.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• FOPE
• Kew
• SAFIO