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Heteropterys leona

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

(Cavanilles) Exell

Propagation

S.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Belize
• Benin
• Amazonas
• Pará - Brazil
• Cameroon
• Colombia
• Congo
• Costa Rica
• French Guiana
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guatemala
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Ivory Coast
• Jamaica
• Liberia
• Nicaragua
• Nigeria
• Panama
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Seasonally inundated areas
• coastal
• riverside
• lakeside
• forest
• shrubland

Flowering Times

• Mar
• Apr
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug

Fruiting Times

• Nov

Twining glabrous liana, tree or shrub with coriaceous glabrous leaves apart from scattered hairs beneath 200mm x 100mm. Yellow flowers in rusrty-tomentose terminal or axillary racemes or panicles with bracts & bracteoles. Flowers to 40mm diameter, sepals to 6mm long, petals to 6.5mm. Red-winged fruits, brown when ripe, samaras to 50mm long

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• NHN
• Neotrop
• Jstor
• Botanicus
• Niedenzu
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• NAF
• FOL