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Deguelia scandens
Deguelia scandens
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- Aublet
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Bolivia
- Acre
- Amazonas
- Pará
- Piauí
- Rondonia - Brazil
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guyana
- Peru
- Suriname
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- riverine forest
- inundated forest
- riverside
Flowering Times
- Feb
- Mar
- May
- Jul
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
Fruiting Times
High-climbing twining glabrous liana or tree, 5 glabrous leaflets, imparipinnate leaves, leaflets to 80mm x 40mm, pubescent beneath.Yellowish-white or violet fragrant flowers 8mm long in axillary racemes with bracts at base, calyx 3mm long, yellowish petals 8mm long. Yellow-green winged legume to 125mm x 18mm, wing 3mm wide
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Mobot
- NYBG
- NHN
- Neotrop
- FB
- Bailey 1976
- Huxley 1992
- Bodkin
- APDC
- The Plant List 2
- Botanicus
- FOPE