Anemopaegma orbiculatum Dc.

Species

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Characteristics

Liana to at least 2.5 cm in diameter, the bark light gray, smooth; stem with 8 phloem arms in cross section; branchlets subtetragonal, hollow, longitudinally ridged, puberulous, interpetiolar glandular fields lacking, an interpetiolar ridge sometimes connecting opposite petioles; pseudostipules usually lacking, rarely minutely foliaceous in young branches. Leaves digitately 5-foliolate or 4-foliolate with a tendril or tendril scar; leaflets ovate, acuminate, rounded to subcordate, membranaceous to subcoriaceous, secondary veins 5-7(-8) on each side, minutely papillate and impressed-lepidote above and beneath, scabrous along most veins beneath and on the midvein-above, drying olive, the terminal leaflet 4.3-22 cm long and 2.2-10 cm wide, intermediate leaflets 4.7-18.2 cm long and 2.3-9.5 cm wide, basal leaflets 3.0-14.5 cm long and 2.1-8.2 cm wide, the terminal petiolule 0.8-5.5 cm long, intermediate petiolules 0.8-3.8 cm long, basal petiolules 0.4-2.6 cm long; petiole 3.2-13.5 cm long, puberulous; tendril simple or trifid, 8-17 cm long, the ends when split, 1-5 mm long. Inflorescence a 1-10-flowered axillary or terminal raceme, its branches puberulous. Flowers faintly fragrant, calyx cupu-lar, truncate, with 5 irregular, minute, submarginal teeth, 5-8 mm long and 5-9 mm wide, puberulous, sometimes with glands; corolla tube yellow, the lobes cream, without nectar guides, tubular-campanulate, 3.2-5.0 cm long and 1.4-1.9 cm wide at the mouth of tube, the tube 2.6-4.1 cm long, the lobes 0.7-1.0 cm long, strongly glandular-lepidote outside, the trichomes sometimes drying orange, in-side scattered glandular-lepidote, pubescent with gland-tipped trichomes at and below the level of stamen insertion; stamens didynamous, the anther thecae more or less divaricate, 3-4 mm long, the longer filaments 2.0-2.6 cm long, the shorter filaments 1.3-1.9 cm long, the staminode 2-7 mm long, inserted 6-11 mm from base of corolla tube; pistil 2.4-3.0 cm long, the ovary stipitate, rounded-cylindric,
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2 mm long and 1.5 mm wide, 1 mm thick, lepidote, the ovules 4-seriate; disc coni-cal-pulvinate, 3 mm wide for basal 1 mm, upper 1.5 mm tapering to a 1-mm-wide stipe below ovary. Capsule circular with a 1.0-1.5 cm long basal stipe, 7.5-9.5 cm in diameter, flattened, the valves slightly convex, ca. 2 cm thick at the center, the surface smooth, scattered lepidote or lepidote-punctate; seeds circular, 2.8-4.5 cm in diameter with a well demarcated membranaceous wing surrounding the seed body, brownish near the center and hyaline near the margin.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Images

Leaf

Anemopaegma orbiculatum leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Anemopaegma orbiculatum leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Anemopaegma orbiculatum leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Flower

Anemopaegma orbiculatum flower picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Anemopaegma orbiculatum flower picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Anemopaegma orbiculatum flower picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Distribution

Anemopaegma orbiculatum world distribution map, present in Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:108284-1
WFO ID wfo-0000780616
COL ID 99KXK
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Synonyms

Peltospermum orbiculatum Anemopaegma orbiculatum Pithecoctenium panamense Bignonia orbiculata Platolaria flavescens Jacaranda orbiculata