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Helicotropis linearis

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Kunth) A. Delgado

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Goiás
• Minas Gerais - Brazil
• Belize
• Costa Rica
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• C. & S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Colombia
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Scrubland
• forest gallery forest
• savanna
• mangroves
• coastal
• cloud forest
• disturbed areas
• riverside

Flowering Times

• All year (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Nicaragua)

Sometimes twining hairy climber or trailer, branches & leaflets with stiff hairs, mucronate leaflets some toothed to 100mm x 15mm. Blue, violet or purple flowers or white flowers with violet wings, 4-toothed calyx tube 4mm long, teeth to 8mm long, dark violet spetals, banner 25mm long. Glabrous pods to 140mmx 5mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• FB
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• ILDIS