Monographs Details:
Authority:
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
Family:
Dilleniaceae
Dilleniaceae
Description:
Description - Twining liana attaining 30 m in length; stems cylindrical, up to 10 cm in diameter, producing abundant potable water when cut; bark reddish brown, peeling in a scaly manner; cross section with concentric rings of xylem alternating with rings of parenchyma. Branches puberulent, angular, scabrous, glabrescent, and cylindrical when mature. Leaves alternate, 8.5-22 x 3-12.5 cm, broadly elliptical, ovate to obovate, coriaceous, the apex rounded, sometimes short-apiculate, the base rounded to subcordiform, the margins revolute, sinuate, or dentate-mucronate; upper surface seabrid, sometimes with the veins appressed-pubescent; lower surface with prominent venation, papillose; petioles thick, 1-3.5 cm long, winged, with the base decurrent to half the diameter of the branch. Inflorescences of axillary panicles, 3-7 cm long, pilose; bracts oblong to ovate, 1-2 mm long. Calyx of 3-4 subequal sepals, ca. 2 mm long; petals 3, obovate, longer than the sepals; stamens 25-30, the filaments sinuate; ovary superior, bicarpellate, biglobose. glabrous Fruit capsular, bilobate, bilocular, crustose, tardily dehiscent. Seeds 2 per fruit, with an orange arillode.
Phenology - Collected in flower in May and June and in fruit in November.
Conservation Status - Native, locally common.
Description - Twining liana attaining 30 m in length; stems cylindrical, up to 10 cm in diameter, producing abundant potable water when cut; bark reddish brown, peeling in a scaly manner; cross section with concentric rings of xylem alternating with rings of parenchyma. Branches puberulent, angular, scabrous, glabrescent, and cylindrical when mature. Leaves alternate, 8.5-22 x 3-12.5 cm, broadly elliptical, ovate to obovate, coriaceous, the apex rounded, sometimes short-apiculate, the base rounded to subcordiform, the margins revolute, sinuate, or dentate-mucronate; upper surface seabrid, sometimes with the veins appressed-pubescent; lower surface with prominent venation, papillose; petioles thick, 1-3.5 cm long, winged, with the base decurrent to half the diameter of the branch. Inflorescences of axillary panicles, 3-7 cm long, pilose; bracts oblong to ovate, 1-2 mm long. Calyx of 3-4 subequal sepals, ca. 2 mm long; petals 3, obovate, longer than the sepals; stamens 25-30, the filaments sinuate; ovary superior, bicarpellate, biglobose. glabrous Fruit capsular, bilobate, bilocular, crustose, tardily dehiscent. Seeds 2 per fruit, with an orange arillode.
Phenology - Collected in flower in May and June and in fruit in November.
Conservation Status - Native, locally common.
Common Names:
bejuco de agua
bejuco de agua