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Cardiospermum microcarpum
Cardiospermum microcarpum
- Botanic Family
- Sapindaceae
- Author
- Kunth
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- N. Argentina
- Queensland - Australia
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Borneo
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- S. China
- Colombia
- Cuba
- El Salvador
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Society Islands - France
- French Guiana
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Maluku
- Sulawesi
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Leeward Islands
- Madagascar
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Netherlands Antilles
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Pakistan
- Panama
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Puerto Rico
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Cape Provinces
- Natal
- Northern Provinces - South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Tonga
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Uruguay
- Hawaii - USA
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Windward Islands
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Annual or biannual sometimes scandent herbaceous low climber to 4m with furrowed glabrous stems, puberulous young growth, tendrils. Biternate leaves, leaflets to 24mm x 18mm. White flowers to 4mm long in 100mm axillary cymes. Inflated 3-chambered capsules to 10mm x 20mm, finely pubescent with membranous wings.
Medicinal uses, seeds produce essential oil, leaves used to make drink
Further References
- MPSR
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- FOTA
- Smithsonian
- FOSEUS
- NGSP