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Paullinia sphaerocarpa

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

Richard ex Jussieu

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• N. Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Woodland

Flowering Times

• Jan

Fruiting Times

• May

Nearly glabrous liana with young branches lenticellate. 5-foliolate leaves, crenate leaflets to 120mm long. Puberulent panicles to 300mm long with minute bracts & bractlets, yellow flowers, tomentulose sepals to 2.5mm long. Glabrate capsules to 20mm diameter.

Further References

• Mobot
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE