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Bronwenia cornifolia

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

(Kunth) W.R. Anderson & C. Davis

Common Names

• Nance Colorado (Costa Rica)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest margin
• riverside
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Aug
• Sep
• Dec

Semi-climbing tree, shrub or liana with branches becoming glabrous & lenticellate. Leaves glabrous above, hairy beneath to 180mm long. Axillary & terminal panicles or racemes of pink or yellow flowers to 14mm diameter, sepals to 2.5mm long, glabrous petals to 7mm. Puberulent brownish-red samaras, wings 35mm x 10mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• WRA
• Niedenzu
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• NAF
• FOPE
• Standley