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Machaerium aculeatum
Machaerium aculeatum
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- Raddi
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- NE. Argentina
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Amazonas
- Bahia
- Goiás
- Mato Grosso
- Mato Grosso do Sul
- Minas Gerais
- Pará
- Rio de Janeiro
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Swampy jungle
- primary forest
- floodplain
- riverside
- inundated forest
- montane forest
- shrubland
- coastal
Flowering Times
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Dec
Fruiting Times
Scandent spiny shrub, treelet or liana. Imparipinnate leaves with up to 60 leaflets, glabrous or slightly pilose leaflets to 15mm x 5mm. Rusty pubescent terminal axillary panicles with bractlets to 2mm long. Light rosy mauve, violet, purple or light blue aromatic flowers to 12mm long, 5-toothed calyx to 4mm long, standard to 8mm long, strongly curved keel petals. Sparsely pilose, hairy or glabrate legume to 50mm x 5mm with wing 8mm wide.
Further References
- Mobot
- FB
- NYBG
- APDC
- The Plant List 2
- ILDIS
- FOPE