Myriocarpa longipes Liebm.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Urticaceae > Myriocarpa

Characteristics

A shrub or small tree. It grows 10 m tall. The stems are ribbed below the leaf stalks. The leaves are alternate and broadly oval or egg shaped. They are hairy. There are teeth along the edge. The flowering shoots are drooping. The flowers are white and funnel shaped. The fruit are round or oblong and bluish-black. There are 1-2 seeds.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality -
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 5.0 - 10.0
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Moist thickets or forest, sometimes in second growth, at elevations of 200-2,600 metres. Evergreen forest formations on both the Caribbean and Pacific slopes in Costa Rica at elevations from sea level to 1,100 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in the understorey of wet forests up to 2,000 m above sea level.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses hedge medicinal
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use Malaria (unspecified), Cholagogue (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seeds.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
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Images

Flower

Myriocarpa longipes flower picture by Víquez Carazo Manuel (cc-by-sa)
Myriocarpa longipes flower picture by Juan Carlos Ordonez (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Myriocarpa longipes world distribution map, present in Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama

Conservation status

Myriocarpa longipes threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:854756-1
WFO ID wfo-0000451784
COL ID 458MX
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Myriocarpa longipes Myriocarpa inaequilatera Myriocarpa inaequilateris Myriocarpa yzabalensis Myriocarpa magnifica Myriocarpa longipes var. yzabalensis