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Paullinia pinnata
Paullinia pinnata
- Botanic Family
- Sapindaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
Common Names
- Barbasco Mexico)
- Nistamal (Honduras)
- Tietie (Belize)
- Fish Poison (Belize)
- Macalte-ic (Mayan)
- Pate (Honduras)
- Nistamalillo (El Salvador)
- Pozolillo (El Salvador)
- Chimlmecate (El Salvador)
- Bejuco de Costilla
- Bejuco de Paloma
- Basket Wiss
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- NE. Argentina
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Colombia
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Ethiopia
- French Guiana
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Leeward Islands
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Mozambique
- Netherlands Antilles
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Uganda
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- scrubland
- disturbed areas
- riversides
- remnant forest
- thickets
- pasture
- montane forest
Flowering Times
- Dec-Jan (Zimbabwe)
- Apr-Nov (Puerto Rico)
- Jun-Aug (Dominica)
Fruiting Times
- Oct-Jul (Puerto Rico)
- Aug-Jan (Dominica)
Liana or large glabrous high-climbing shrub or woody vine with glabrescent 3-6-ribbed stems. 5-foliolate imparipinnate toothed leaves glabrous or puberulent on mid-vein, terminal leaflet to 153mm x 75mm. Axillary puberulent or tomentulose racemes or thyrses to 280mm long of 5mm long white or yellowish flowers, white petals 5mm long, grey-downy sepals to 2.5mm, paired woody tendrils at base of raceme. 40mm x 15mm deep red glabrous woody wingless 3-valved capsule, purple-pink maturing red with 3-4 apical lobes to 10mm long.
Further References
- Gouldstone 1983
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- FCP
- FB
- Fzim
- Botanicus
- The Plant List 2
- FOG
- VOPR
- FOTA
- JAA
- Smithsonian
- FOPE
- SAFIO
- Morales