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Paullinia eriocarpa

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

Triana & Planchon

Common Names

• Chunda Huasca (Kichwa)

Geographical Habitats

• N. Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• forest
• seasonally inundated areas.

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Oct

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Sep
• Oct
• Dec

Liana to 12m with bifid tendrils, 5-angled glabrate or hirsute branches. 5-7foliolate leaves with dentate leaflets to 200mm x 90mm, glabrous or pilose beneath. Axillary racemes, panicles with bracts to 7mm x 7mm, flowers with green calyx, sepals 8mm x 6mm, tomentulose white petals to 9mm x 5mm. Woody hairy golden-brown capsule to 30mm x 17mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• HUA