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Paullinia bracteosa

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

Radlkofer

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• N. Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• forests
• riversides
• seasonally inundated areas
• swamps
• coastal
• secondary vegetation

Flowering Times

• Dec-Mar

Fruiting Times

• Feb-Sep Nov

Large glabrous liana to 10m or tree with 3-5 angled glabrescent stems with lenticels. Pinnate leaves, 5 coriaceus crenate-dentate leaflets to 320mm x 140mm, glabrous above & glabrescent beneath. 5.5mm white flowers in puberulent axillary spikes to 300mm long with bracts, green calyxtomentulose sepals to 5.5m long, white petals 6mm long. Glabrescent red pyriform capsule to 61mm x 28mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Standley
• Morales
• HUA