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Bauhinia pauletia

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Persoon

Common Names

• Shao mai yang ti jia (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Floodplain
• fence rows
• shrubland

Flowering Times

• Oct
• Dec

Fruiting Times

Shrubby climber to 3m or small tree with spines, pubescent prickly branches. Glabrous 2-lobed leaves pubescent beneath to 60mm long. Axillary or terminal racemes with bracts to 100mm long, of 20mm pale green or yellow & red flowers with purplish tint, calyx tube to 20mm long. Velvety fruit 250mm x 13mm.

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• APDC
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• ILDIS
• SAFIO