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Centrosema brasilianum

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Linnaeus) Bentham

Common Names

• Rabo de Tatu (Brazil)

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Amapá
• Alagoas
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Distrito Federal
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Paraná
• Paraiba
• Pernambuco
• Piaui
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rio Grande
• Roraima
• Sergipe
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Nicaragua
• Paraguay
• Panama
• Peru
• Santo Domingo
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest margins
• forest
• open areas
• riverside
• shrubland

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jun

Twining glabrous vine, glabrous mucronate leaflets. Solitary to 4-flowered inflorescences of blue, white or yellow flowers with a large violet spot in standard or purplish flowers, bractlets to 8mm wide, calyx tube to 4mm long with teeth to 4mm long. Glabrous legume to 100mm long x 5mm.

Medicinal uses

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE