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Entada polystachya

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Linnaeus) de Candolle

Common Names

• Liane Pak
• Liane Paques

Geographical Habitats

• Antilles
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Marahão
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Riverside thicket
• seasonally inundated areas
• mangrove forest edge
• forest
• savanna
• riverine forest
• lakeside
• coastal

Flowering Times

• May (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Dec (Mexico)

Unarmed high-climbing scandent glabrous tendril shrub, tree or liana, petiole sometime cirrhose. Bipinnate leaves with 2-8 pairs of 6-20 pairs of leaflets glabrous or pubescent on veins beneath to 40mm long, glabrous leaflets or pubescent beneath to 35mm x 18mm. Many-flowered terminal racemes, fascicles or panicles to 600mm long, greenish white or yellow flowers, glabrous calyx to 0.5mm, glabrous greenish petals to 1mm. Coriaceous glabrous 450mm x 80mm pod, 100mm wide

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• APDC
• NYBG
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• JAA
• ILDIS
• FOPE
• USNH
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Standley