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Machaerium aristulatum

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Spruce ex Bentham) Ducke

Common Names

• Picoloro
• Pico de Loro
• Chirapa Silla (Peru)
• Garabata Casha (Peru)
• Juquirí (Brazil)
• Robasesna (Venezuela)
• Unha de Cigana (Brazil)
• Uña de Gato (Colombia)
• Uña de Gavilán (Colombia)
• Robasesina

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Acre
• Goiás
• Pará
• Rondonia
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Brushy savanna
• seasonally inundated areas
• forests
• riverside
• riverine forest
• wet savanna
• floodplain

Flowering Times

• Jan
• May
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Jul
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Spiny shrubby climber, high-climbing liane or tree to 10m with recurved spines, glabrescent stems, recurved spines to 15mm x 5mm. Inparipinnate leaves with 11-15 leaflets, coriaceous leaflets to 75mm x 30mm with an awn to 5mm long, glabrous above & puberulent beneath. Silky pubescent axillary or terminal panicles with spiny bracts to 5mm long & bracteoles to 2mm x 2.5mm, mauve or blue-violet flowers to 14mm long, silky calyx to 7mm x 4mm with lobes 1mm long, white, ye.llowish, pale blue, violet or purple petals, standard to 7mm long, sericeous outside. Green curved fruit to 70mm x 30mm, almost into a circle 25mm diameter, glabrescent with age.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke