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Chaetocalyx brasiliensis

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Vogel) Bentham

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Paraná
• Santa Catarina - Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• S. Mexico
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• seasonally inundated areas
• scrubland
• secondary forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Jun
• Jul
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Mar (Trinidad)

Mostly glabrous herbaceous twining vine. Glabrous or pilose imparipinnate leaves with 7-9 minutely mucronulate leaflets 20mm x 15mm. White to yellow flowers in axillary racemes to 7 flowers to 20mm long , calyx 10mm long, petals to 20mm long, standard to 12mm wide, keel to 6mm wide. Legume to 150mm x 3mm

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• SAFIO