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Genus Pithecoctenium Family Bignoniaceae
Common Name: Monkey's Comb

Description: Climbing shrubs or vines, climbing with often multifid tendrils (the tendril tips with a small adhesive disc to assist attachment).

Leaves opposite, compound, 3-foliate (often appearing 2-foliate), the terminal leaflet often replaced by a multifid tendril or absent.

Inflorescences axillary, few-flowered. Calyx cupular, truncate, minutely 5-dentate. Corolla tubular to campanulate, tube curved. Stamens 4, included.

Fruit a densely spiny, woody capsule; seeds with papery, hyaline wings.


Distribution and occurrence: World: c. 20 species, Caribbean and tropical S America; Australia: 1 species (naturalised), Qld, N.S.W.

Text by (compiled) P.G. Kodela, May 2017
Taxon concept: Australian Plant Census (accessed May 2017)

One species in NSW: Pithecoctenium crucigerum

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