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Chaetocalyx scandens

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Linnaeus) Urban

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bahia
• Ceará
• Distrito Federal
• Paraiba
• Pernambuco
• Rio de Janeiro
• Roraima
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Hispaniola
• Leeward Islands
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Paraguay
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Hedges
• coastal shrubland

Flowering Times

• May-Aug (Guadeloupe)

Fruiting Times

• Nov

Herbaceous twining climber with glabrous stems, branches velvety-pubescent. Glabrous or pubescent mucronulate leaflets, 5-7 leaflets to 20mm long . Solitary or paired axillary prickly inflorescence to 25mm long, yellow flowers to 14mm long, glabrous calyx to 8mm long with a few bristles, yellowish corolla, standard petal to 17mm x 15mm, keel to 6.5mm wide. Pubescent or glabrous legume to 2mm wide with 6 or more jointed segments.

Further References

• Mobot
• FB
• NYBG
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• Smithsonian
• SAFIO
• ILDIS