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Callaeum macropterum

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

(de Candolle) D.M. Johnson

Common Names

• Chupiro (Mexico)

Geographical Habitats

• Nuevo León
• Sinaloa - Mexico
• Arizona - USA

Natural Habitats

• Coastal to inland forests
• montane forest
• forest
• fence rows
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Mar
• May
• Jun (Mexico)

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• May
• Nov
• Dec (Mexico)

Woody evergreen liana or trailing shrub, shrub or small tree with scandent twining branches. Glabrescent leaves 80mm x 25mm. Axillary or terminal 4-8 flowered racemes or umbels of fragrant yellow flowers, sepals to 4mm long, clawed petals to 14.5mm long with fringed margins, posterior petals to 13mm long. Fruit a 3-winged samara, one wing tinted red, wings to 65mm high x 55mm, nuts 10mm diameter.

Tying cut hay

Further References

• Mobot
• Llamas 2003
• Neotrop
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• DMJ
• Botanicus
• Fedde
• NAF