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Guilandina major

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(de Candolle) Small

Cultivated

C, seeds, medicine

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bahamas
• N. Brazil
• Cuba
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Guyana
• Hawaii
• Hispaniola
• India
• Ryukyu Is. - Japan
• Jamaica
• Madagascar
• Mexico
• Myanmar
• Pacific Islands
• Puerto Rico
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Tonga
• Florida - USA

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• primary forest
• thickets
• forest edge
• dense jungle.

Flowering Times

• Oct

Fruiting Times

Large prickly liana to 15m or straggling shrub with densely spiny stems, bipinnate paripinnate leaves glabrous above, glabrous or puberulent beneath, 5-8 pairs of mucronate leaflets to 90mm x 50mm, petiole & rachis spiny. Puberulent axillary racemes to 500mm long with glabrescent bracts to 8mm long, 30mm diameter yellow flowers, tomentulose calyx to 7mm long x 2mm, bright yellow petals 7mm x 3mm, fruit a sparsely spiny pod to 130mm long x 60mm with stiff yellow bristles and sharp beak to 10mm long

Further References

• FOSi
• FOH
• NYBG
• Mansfeld
• J.S. Gamble
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• USNH
• Botanicus : NAF
• Flora Malesiana
• Fedde