When time and funding permit, each flower (each plant species) will have its own page, and its own PDF, and eventually its own PPT so that professors and students have plenty of material on Guatemala (and Honduras, etc) to study.

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Largest flower in Guatemala: Bibliography on Aristolochia, tecolotillo or guaco

 

Places where Aristolochia can be found: in Guatemala:

Aristolochia grandiflora:

  • Alta Verapaz: near the Finca Sepacuite
  • Chiquimula: eastern portions of Verapaz and Chiquimula
  • El Progreso: along railroad between Barranquillo and Cruz
  • Escuintla: Cuyuta, San Juan Mixtan, Río Michatoya
  • Izabal: Las playitas
  • Jalapa: near Guastetoya, El Rancho
  • Petén: Arroyo Petexbatun, between Sayaxche and Lake Petexbatun
  • Retalhuleu: Las Delicias
  • Sacatepéquez: volcán Santa Clara, cerca de El Naranjo, lower slopes of volcán Zunil, Finca Montecristo
  • San Marcos: Río Cabús near Malacatán, above Finca El Porvenir, lower south-facing slopes of Volcán Tajumulco
  • Santa Rosa: El Molino (Bello, 2006) - Guatemala - Zacapa (Pfeifer, 1966)

Aristolochia bullata

  • Petén: Dolores, bordering Arroyo Mul in low forest, about 300 m. (Barringer, 1983).

Aristolochia steyermarkii

  • Quetzaltenango: along quebrada San Gerónimo, Finca Pirineos, lower south facing slopes of Volcán Santa Marta, between Santa María de Jesús and Calahuache. And Finca St. John, 5 km South, of Santa María de Jesús on the SE slopes of Volcán Santa Marta. (Barringer, 1983).

Aristolochia malacophylla

  • Sacatepequez (Pfeifer, 1966)

Aristolochia arborea

  • Alta Verapaz, Quetzaltenango, San Marcos (Pfeifer, 1966)

Aristolochia paracleta

  • Huehuetenango (Pfeifer, 1966)

Aristolochia pilosa

  • Alta Verapaz (Pfeifer, 1966)

Aristolochia ringens

  • Guatemala city (Pfeifer, 1966)

Aristolochia litoralis

  • La Libertad, Petén (Pfeifer, 1966)

Aristolochia odoratissima

  • Petén (Pfeifer, 1966)

Aristolochia maxima

  • Alta Verapaz
  • Chiquimula
  • Escuintla
  • Guatemala
  • Jutiapa
  • Retalhuleu
  • Santa Rosa
  • Zacapa (Pfeifer, 1966)

Aristolochia inflata

  • Jutiapa
  • Santa Rosa (Pfeifer, 1966)

Aristolochia anguicida

  • Chiquimula
  • Jutiapa
  • Santa Rosa
  • Zacapa (Pfeifer, 1966)

 

PDF, Articles, Books on Aristolochia

  • BELLO, M. A., VALOIS, H. and F. GONZÁLEZ
  • 2006
  • Aristolochia grandiflora sw. (Aristolochiaceae): desarrollo y morfología de la flor más larga del mundo. Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Vol. 30, No. 115. Pages 181-194.
    Available Online:
    www.bio-nica.info/biblioteca/Bello2006Aristolochia.pdf

 

PDF, Articles, Books on Aristolochia

www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/paginas_especie/plantae_online/magnoliophyta/aristolochiaceae/
aristolochia_maxima/a_maxima02dic1999/a_maxima03dic99.html

Information and photos, A. maxima.

www.tropicos.org/Name/2500028?projectid=7
Information, phots and map location, A. anguicida.

www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2651146
Synonyms, A. anguicida.

www.tropicos.org/Name/2500318?projectid=3
Information and map location, A. arborea.

http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/reference/arisarbe.htm
Information and photos, A. arborea.

http://www.tropicos.org/name/50217228?projectid=3
Information and map location, A. bullata Pfeifer.

https://naturalezatropical.blogspot.com/2015/12/Aristolochia-elegans-Candiles-Calico.html
Information and photos, A. elegans.

www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/120156
Information and map location, A. elegans.

http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Aristolochia+grandiflora
Information and photos, A. grandiflora

www.tropicos.org/name/02500200?projectid=7
Information, A. inflata

www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Aristolochia+inflata
Photos, A. inflate

www.tropicos.org/Name/50136325?projectid=3
Information and map location, A. malacophylla.

www.tropicos.org/Name/2500227?projectid=3
Information and map location, A. odoratissima.

http://www.tropicos.org/Name/2500132?projectid=3
Information and map location, A. steyermarkii.

 

First posted August 29, 2017

 

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