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Dalbergia ovalis

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Linnaeus) P.L.R. Moraes & L.P. Queiroz

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Antilles
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Pará
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Rondonia
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Florida U.S.A.
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Lake edge
• disturbed humid forest
• floodplain forest
• inundated forest
• riverside
• riverine forest
• forest edge
• coastal thickets

Flowering Times

• Feb-Oct (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Mar (Puerto Rico)

Liana or woody glabrous climber with short branches that entangle like tendrils or glabrous shrub. 1-7 foliolate imparipinnate leaves 200mm x 100mm, glabrous above puberulent beneath, coriaceous leaflets 150mm long. Axillary pilose panicles or racemes to 30mm long, fragrant white, purple or pink flowers, to 8mm long, calyx 3mm, standard 10mm long, wings & keel same. Pale reddish-brown flat glabrous fruit 50mm x 40mm.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• ILDIS
• FB
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• FSU
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• FOPE
• SAFIO
• Standley
• Ceiba