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Heteropterys nervosa

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

A. Jussieu

Common Names

• Sarabatucú (Brazil)
• Ma-teé-na-ne (Taiwano)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Goiás
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Gross do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riverside
• forest margins
• scrubland
• forest
• edge of gallery forest
• riverine forest
• forest thorn forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jul
• Aug
• Oct
• Dec

Twining liana or small tree with tuberculate branches. Glabrescent leaves with scattered silky hairs beneath to 250mm x 90mm. Axillary & terminal panicles, corymbs or racemes of 20mm diameter yellow flowers with denticulate petals, sepals to 5mm long, larger petals to 9mm. Pale green to red winged fruit to 50mm x 15mm

Medicinal uses

Further References

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