T. peruviana Poir. Liana or climbing shrub, to 5 m tall; young parts pubescent. Petioles 1-2 cm long; blades ovate to elliptic, acute to acuminate, obtuse at base, 5-14 cm long, 2.5-5 cm wide, glabrous to moderately pubescent, often drying dark. Cymes arranged in irregular panicles, the branches to ca 5 cm long; pedicels very short or to 2 mm in fruit; sepals 5, free, +/- ovate, 1.5-2 mm long, sparsely pubescent; corolla white to yellow, the tube to 6 mm long, the lobes 5, subulate, less than 1 mm long; stamens 5, sessile, attached midway on tube; anthers ca 1 mm long, connate apically; ovary ovoid; style simple, 2-3 mm long; stigma conical. Fruits distinctly lobed, 4-5 mm diam, orange to yellow and separating into 4 nutlets at maturity; nutlets ca 3.5 mm long. Bailey & Bailey 237 (F). Mexico to Peru and Brazil; West Indies. In Panama, ecologically variable; known from tropical moist forest in the Canal Zone, Veraguas (Coiba Island and Santiago), and Panama, from premontane dry forest in Panama (Taboga Island), and from premontane wet and lower montane wet forests in Darien (Cerro Pirre). It appears likely that the species will be found to occur in tropical wet forest as well.