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Machaerium floribundum

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Bentham

Common Names

• Mano de Galagago
• Uña de Gavilán (Venezuela)
• Bohori Bada
• Chaperno
• Nansematoto
• Neupinche
• Sangre De Toro

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Goiás
• Pará
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Oaxaca
• Veracruz - Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Tropical rain forest
• inundated areas
• riverside
• forest.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• May

Prickly stemmed or unarmed tree, shrub or high-climbing liana to 25m+ with spines to 8mm long. Imparipinnate leaves of 5-13 coriaceous leaflets to 260mm x 110mm, glabrous above & silky to minutely puberulent beneath. Mauve to blue & white flowers or white flowers or brown & cream or flushed pink 10mm long in terminal many-flowered panicles to 500mm long with spiny bracts to 5mm long & bractlets to 2mm x 1.5mm on brown silky branches, flowers to 10mm long, white petals with violet spots, rusty red tomentose calyx 4mm x 2.5mm, standard to 7mm+ long. Glabrous fruit to 100mm x 24mm with wing to 65mm x 20mm.

Further References

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