1. Home
2. Muellera monilis

Muellera monilis

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Linnaeus) M.J. Silva & A.M.G. Azevedo

Common Names

• Barbasco (Colombia)
• Barbasquio
• Fruta-de-rato

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Maranhão
• Pará
• Piaui - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• S. Mexico
• Panama
• Nicaragua
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riverside
• coastal
• mangroves
• inundated forest

Flowering Times

• Sep (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

Shrub or tree sometimes scandent with white lenticels on branches. 5-foliolate leaves, leaflets to 110mm x 50mm, glabrous above & glabrous or pubescent beneath. Axillary racemes of deep rose-purple flowers with bracteoles, calyx to 3.5mm x 5mm, standard 8mm long, wing to 10mm long. Legume 25mm diameter

Further References

• Mobot
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Gleason & Moldenke