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Machaerium quinata

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Aublet) Sandwith

Common Names

• Bohoribada (Guyana)
• Acayere (Venezuela)
• Kraboejassi Tetei (Suriname)
• Kunikully (Guyana)
• Timbo Brabo (Brazil)
• Waliballi or Wariballi (Suriname)
• Quinata

Geographical Habitats

• Amazonas
• Amapá
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Pará
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Peru
• Suriname
• Guyana
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed forest
• secondary forest
• riverside
• thickets
• forest edge
• savanna

Flowering Times

• Mar
• Sep
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Nov
• Dec

Twining liane to 16m or climbing shrub becoming a tree, with young stems tomentulose becoming glabrescent. Leaves 5-15 foliate, leaflets coriaceous & mucronate, puberulent to glabrous above ferrugineous-tomentose beneath to 150mm x 75mm. Tomentose terminal or axillary racemes or panicles with bracts to 30mm x 7mm & bracteoles to 4mm x 4mm of reddish-violet flowers to 17mm long with white centre, calyx to 6mm x 4mm, purple, pink or white petals, standard to 12mm long . Winged tomentulose greenish-yellow fruit 110mm x 20mm, wing 70mm x 30mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• NHN
• Neotrop
• FB
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Fsu
• Botanicus
• Gleason & Moldenke