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Paullinia cururu

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Pahuch-ac
• or Pajuj-ac (Mayan)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Amazonas
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• disturbed areas
• coastal

Flowering Times

• May-Jul

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Sep

Scandent glabrous high-climber with glabrescent grooved stems with small lenticels. Palmate mostly glabrous leaves with 3 toothed or serrated leaflets to 182mm x 65mm. Axillary inflorescences (thyrses) or racemes to 35mm long of 5mm white flowers, glabrous sepals to 2.1mm, white petals to 3mm long. 3-angled 25mm x 12mm glabrescent red capsule.

Further References

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