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Aristolochia pentandra
3-622.74.05English: Marsh's dutchman's-pipe.
Region: south and central America.
Habitat: dunes, coastal shrublands, scrublands.
Ecology: larval foodplant for the butterfly Battus polydamas.BotanySlender vine, mostly just sprawling; to 3 m in length; climbing on surrounding vegetation or along the ground.
Leaves: alternate; cordate; to 4 cm in length; entire margin and acute leaf apex; hastate; basal lobes rounded.
Habitat: offshore cayes on sandy soils.
Flowers: incomplete; perfect; strongly zygomorphic; solitary in leaf axils; sepals fused, forming an inflated base narrowing to a curved red tube, withoiut projecting appendages; stamens 5, unfused in the calyx inflated base; superior ovary has 5 locules and numerous ovules.
Fruit: brown capsule; opens at the point of attachment to the peduncle forming a hanging basket shape.
Region: south and central America.
Habitat: dunes, coastal shrublands, scrublands.
Ecology: larval foodplant for the butterfly Battus polydamas.BotanySlender vine, mostly just sprawling; to 3 m in length; climbing on surrounding vegetation or along the ground.
Leaves: alternate; cordate; to 4 cm in length; entire margin and acute leaf apex; hastate; basal lobes rounded.
Habitat: offshore cayes on sandy soils.
Flowers: incomplete; perfect; strongly zygomorphic; solitary in leaf axils; sepals fused, forming an inflated base narrowing to a curved red tube, withoiut projecting appendages; stamens 5, unfused in the calyx inflated base; superior ovary has 5 locules and numerous ovules.
Fruit: brown capsule; opens at the point of attachment to the peduncle forming a hanging basket shape.