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Paullinia fuscescens

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

Kunth

Common Names

• Pate (Honduras)
• Campalca (Honduras)
• Nistamal (El Salvador)
• Nistamalillo (El Salvador)
• Bejuco Cuadrado (El Salvador)
• Barbasco (El Salvador)
• Kexac (Mayan)
• Bix-chemac (Mayan)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• disturbed areas
• shrubland
• coastal
• forest remnants
• thickets
• cloud forest

Flowering Times

• Mar (Mexico)

Fruiting Times

• Mar (Mexico)

Large woody tendril liana with puberulent grooved lenticellate branchlets becoming glabrate. Dentate biternate leaves sparsely pubescent above, puberulent beneath, 9 leaflets to 85mm x 32mm, puberulent above on veins, densely tomentose to glabrate beneath. Axillary or terminal puberulent thyrses or racemes to 150mm long of 4.5mm white fragrant puberulent flowers, white to cream petals to 3.5mm long, tomentulose sepals to 3mm long. 20mm x 15mm 3-winged orange-red pubescent or glabrate capsule.

Further References

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