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Heteropterys macrostachya

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

A. Jussieu

Common Names

• Capitariiva (Geral)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Pará
• Rondonia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Aug (Colombia)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Mar

High-climbing liana or shrub with reddish silky branchlets, glabrate striate or lenticellate branches. Coriaceous mucronate leaves glabrous above brownish silky pubescent beneath to 200mm x 100m. Axillary panicles or umbels with bracts & bractlets to 1.5mm long, of yellow flowers to 14mm diameter, sepals to 5mm long, larger petals to 7mm long. 65mm x 25mm winged fruit, samara nut to 10mm wide.

Medicinal

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• Niedenzu
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• FOPE
• HUBM
• Standley