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Ancistrotropis peduncularis

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Fawcett & Rendle) A. Delgado

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Antilles
• Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Goiás
• Minas Gerais
• Paraiba
• Piaui
• Santa Catarina - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• W. & S. Mexico
• Netherlands Antilles
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Venezuela
• Virgin islands

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• coastal
• disturbed areas
• rocky slopes
• secondary forest
• shrubland
• coastal
• pasture
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Nov-Apr (Nic) Nov & Jan (Puerto Rico)-

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Apr (Nic) Nov & Jan (Puerto Rico)-

Twining slender hispid scabrous herbaceous climber or trailer, branches with stiff hairs. Trifoliolate leaves glabrous or glabrate both surfaces, leaflets to 50mm long. Few-flowered axillary pseudo-racemes to 260mm long of 20mm long pale mauve or pink & white flowers, calyx to 4mm long, standard, wings & keel to 8mm long, keel spirally twisted. Puberulent mucronate fruit to 100mm long x 5mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Standley
• FOJam