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Adenopodia patens

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Hooker & Arnott) J. Dixon ex Brenan

Common Names

• Zarza Cola de Garrobo (El Salvador)
• Zarza Sólida (El Salvador

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua

Natural Habitats

• Thickets

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Nov (Costa Rica) Jan
• Nov
• Dec (El Salvador) Feb (Honduras) Oct
• Nov (Mexico) Jan
• Dec (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Feb (Costa Rica) Jan
• Mar
• Apr
• Nov (El Salvador) Dec (Mexico) Feb
• Mar (Nicaragua)

Scrambling vine to 9m with bipinnate leaves with 3-6 pairs, glabrous leaflets to 50mm long sometimes hairy on midvein beneath, petiole & axis of leaves with dense recurved prickles. Pubescent inflorescence to 300mm long, yellowish-white glabrous flowers to 1.5mm long. Glabrous legume 130mm x 25mm

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• ILDIS
• Gleason & Moldenke