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Heteropterys laurifolia

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) A. Jussieu

Common Names

• Liane Jaune (Haiti)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Mato Grosso - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Venezuelan Antilles

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• forest edges
• coastal
• riverside
• secondary forest
• pasture
• montane shrubland
• coastal thickets

Flowering Times

• All year (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Puerto Rico)

Woody twining liana or scandent or shrub to 20m with 45mm winged fruit, a ferruginous-tomentose mericarp with wing to 60mm long, turning brown, dense axillary & terminal racemes or panicles & branches & petioles clothed with rusty down, 20mm diameter yellow or bluish? denticulate flowers, sepals to 5mm long, yellow petals to 7mm long, glabrous coriaceous leaves to 160mm long with some scattered hairs beneath. Samaras to 40mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• Niedenzu
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• NAF
• JAA
• SAFIO
• Standley