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Hiraea faginea

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

(Swartz) Niedenzu

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Acre
• Amazonas
• Pará
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Rainforest
• disturbed areas
• coastal
• riverine forest
• forest
• coastal thickets

Flowering Times

• Jan-Apr
• Jul-Nov may

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Apr
• Jul-Nov

Liana or shrub with coriaceous leaves glabrous above silky beneath to 160mm long. Up to 4 flowered axillary umbels, yellow flowers, sepals to 4.5mm long, yellow fimbriate petals to 11mm long, winged seeds to 20mm wide, pubescent samaras to 20mm long with coriaceous wings.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• NAF
• Standley