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Paullinia costata

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

Schlechtendahl & Chamisso

Common Names

• Pate (Honduras)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• NW. Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• E.& S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Wet forest
• thickets. forrest.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Apr
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Mar
• May
• Dec

Liana or glabrous shrub with tendrils, tomentose or glabrous stems with lenticels. Pinnate leaves with 5 crenate toothed leaflets to 114mm x 42mm, nearly glabrous. Axillary or terminal racemes or panicles to 230mm long of 4mm scented white or cream flowers, tomentulose sepals to 4mm longm, white petals to 3.7mm. Glabrate red capsule to 40mm long.

Medicinal uses

Further References

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