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Dioclea guianensis

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Bentham

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Goiás
• Pará
• Rondonia
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Coastal thickets
• forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jul
• Aug
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Jul

Tomentose twining large woody liana to 10m. Trifoliate leaves with pubescent leaflets to 80mm x 45mm. Axillary racemes or terminal panicles with bracts of 25mm long purple flowers with white centre with bractlets to 3mm long, calyx tube to 6mm+ long, whitish keel fading with age. Green-brown pilose pods to 100mm long x 15mm

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Standley
• FOPE
• HUA