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Bauhinia longifolia

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Bongard) Steudel

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Distrito Federal
• Goiás
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Paraná
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Paraguay
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riverine forest
• disturbed forest edge
• cultivated land
• gallery forest
• secondary forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

• May
• Jun (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jun (Brazil)

Liana, shrub or treeto 8m. Coriaceous leaves 1/3 to 1/2 bilobed to 75mm x 36mm, glabrous above, puberulous beneath. Racemes orm panicles of slightly fragrant white flowers with bracts. Calyx tube to 25mm long, lobes to 80mm long, petals to 120mm long. Glabrate green fruit to 200mm x 20mm.

Further References

• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• ILDIS
• FOPE
• BJS