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Paullinia elegans
Paullinia elegans
- Botanic Family
- Sapindaceae
- Author
- Cambessèdes
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- NE. Argentina
- Bolivia
- Acre
- Amazonas
- Bahia
- Maranhão
- Mato Grosso
- Minas Gerais
- Paraná
- Pernambuco
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Santa Catarina
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Uruguay
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- secondary forest
- lakeside
- inundated forest
- riverside
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Glabrous climber with triangular or 6-ribbed branches. Ternate or 5-foliolate leaves to 150mm+ with 2 pairs of toothed leaflets, terminal leaflet to 130mm x 60mm. 5mm long white or yellow flowers in pubescent axillary panicles or thyrses to 200mm long with tendrils at apex. Glabrous red 3-lobed wingless capsule 20mm x 12mm, tendrils.
Further References
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- Botanicus
- FOPE
- Gleason & Moldenke