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Gouania polygama

Botanic Family

Rhamnaceae

Author

(Jacquin) Urban

Common Names

• Jaboncillo (El Salvador)
• Limpia-dientes (Honduras)
• Mascapelo
• Liane Savon (Haiti)
• Gancho (Colombia)
• Corono (Colombia)

Geographical Habitats

• NW. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Distrito Federal
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Florida - USA
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• thickets
• forest edge
• coastal
• secondary vegetation
• disturbed areas
• riverside
• shrubland
• gallery forest
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Oct-Mar (Nicaragua)
• Oct-Jan (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Sep (Bolivia)
• Oct-Mar (Nicaragua)
• Dec-Jan (Puerto Rico)
• May (Ecuador)

Large woody tendril liana to 15m or arching shrub with wite-pubescent stems. Mucronate serrate leaves puberulent above, densely yellow-tomentose beneath to 150mm x 100mm. Axillary or terminal racemes or panicles to 220mm long of 1mm fragrant white or greenish-yellow flowers, calyx 1.5mm long, simple tendrils on inflorescence. Glabrate or pubescent 3-angled schizocarp 14mm x 4mm maturing brown.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• APDC
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• FOG
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• SAFIO
• HUA