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Paullinia cupana

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

Kunth

Common Names

• Guarana

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Trinidad
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• seasonally inundated areas
• edge of canyon
• riverside.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• May
• Jul
• Aug
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Jun

Liana or perennial woody shrub with pilose branches becoming glabrous. 5-foliolate leaves with bracts, serrated coriaceous leaflets hairy on veins & nerves beneath, terminal leaflet to 200mm x 90mm, tendrils in leaf axils. 5mm scented white to yellow flowers in thyrses or panicles 200mm long with bracts to 1.5mm long, sepals 3mm long, petals 5mm long. Orange-red to deep red 3-celled capsules 35mm long

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• Bodkin
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke
• IIAP