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Heteropterys brachiata

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) de Candolle

Propagation

S.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Dry forest
• disturbed forest
• secondary forest
• riverside thickets
• roadside
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Aug-Sep Apr
• May
• Oct

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Jan

Climbing shrub or small woody liana with rusty tomentose branchlets & lenticellate glabrate branches. Mucronate leaves pubescent or glabrous above tomentose beneath to 70mm x 40mm, prominent veins. 4-6 flowered axillary & terminal umbels with bracts & bractlets to 2mm long, of 12mm diameter pink flowers or pink with white margin, sepals to 3.5mm long, reddish petals to 4mm long, larger petals to 6mm long. Brown-hairy reddish samaras to 40mm long, wings to 25mm x 14mm.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• NYBG
• Niedenzu
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• FOPE
• Standley