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Cologania broussonetii

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Balbis) de Candolle

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• N. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Chile
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• New Mexico
• Texas - USA
• NW. Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Grasslands
• shrublands
• riverside
• montane areas
• thickets
• forest

Flowering Times

• Jul-Sep (Mexico)

Fruiting Times

• Jul (Mexico)

Herbaceous slender twining climber with reddish hairs. 3-foliolate leaves, mucronate leaflets to 100mm x 25mm, strigose both surfaces, glaucescent beneath. 1-5-flowered umbels of glabrous blue to purple twin flowers to 22mm long, bractlets at base of calyx, purplish pilose calyx to 15mm long with teeth to 3mm long & a few hairs, purplish corolla 25mm long. Pubescent pods to 40mm+ long

Further References

• Mobot
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• Fedde
• ILDIS
• FOPE
• USDA
• USNH
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Standley