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Xylophragma platyphyllum

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

(A. de Candolle L.G. Lohmann

Common Names

• Cipó-una (Brazil)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Ceará
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Rondonia - Brazil
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Secondary vegetation
• roadside
• forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Feb (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

• May (Brazil)

High climbing tendril liana with simple or 2-3 foliolate leaves, leaflets to 200mm x 150mm, foliage sparsely pilose above, densely tomentose beneath. Terminal or lateral panicles to 400mm long with bracts, fragrant 15mm long red-violet, lavender or lilac flowers, 5-toothed calyx to 4mm long, corolla tube to 11mm long, lobes 4mm x 3.5mm. Capsule 160mm x 13mm

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• FOPE
• Kew