Mansoa alliacea
Mansoa alliacea, or garlic vine, is a species of tropical liana in the family Bignoniaceae. It is native to Northern South America, and has spread to Central America and Brazil.
Description
The plant can be described as a shrub or a liana since it produces numerous woody shoots from the root and reaches a height of 2 to 3 m. The stems are almost bare and slightly scaly.The short-stalked leaves are opposite and trifoliate. The petiole is up to 3 centimeters long. The slightly leathery, short-stalked, egg-shaped to elliptical leaflets are almost glabrous, slightly scaly, entire and rounded, pointed to pointed with a pointed, rarely rounded to truncated base.
The middle leaflet is often replaced by a long, usually three-part, often falling tendril. The slightly glandular leaflets are 10 to 27 centimeters long. The leaflet stalks are up to 3 centimeters long. The pseudo stipules are inconspicuous.
Inflorescence
Axillary, few-flowered and thyroid-shaped inflorescences are formed. The large, slightly fragrant, hermaphrodite and stalked, funnel-shaped flowers with double perianth are violet to purple-white. The small, about 1 centimeter long, cup-shaped and slightly glandular calyx is slightly toothed, almost truncated. The corolla is up to 9 centimeters long and the bare corolla tube up to 7 centimeters. The corolla lobes are up to 2 centimeters long. The 4 enclosed stamens are didynamic. The two-chambered and scaly, elongated ovary is superior, the style with two-lobed stigma is enclosed. There is a discus. The plant flowers abundantly twice a year, in autumn to winter and in spring.The fruit is ribbed, angular, pointed, almost bare, multi-seeded capsules with a persistent calyx, up to 40 centimeters long and up to 3.5 centimeters wide. The seeds are winged on both sides and are up to 5-6 centimeters long with the wings; the wings can also be reduced.