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Deguelia utilis

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(A.C. Smith) A.M.G. Azevedo

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Hispaniola
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Primary forest
• partially inundated
• disturbed areas
• shrubland.

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Jun

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Jun

Scandent shrub or tree with 2-9 glabrous Imparipinnate leaflets to 350mm x 120mm, pilose beneath. Paired or solitary or racemes of white, pink or purple flowers, 5-toothed calyx. Glabrous legume

Further References

• Gouldstone 1983
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• NYBG
• APDC
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke