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Paullinia tetragona

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

Aublet

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• N. Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Peru
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• raIn forest

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Climbing shrub with triangular glabrescent stems. 5 dentate glabrous serrated leaflets to 189mm x 81mm. Axillary puberulent fascicles or racmemes to 80mm, aromatic flowers with glabrescent sepasls to 3mm, white petals to 4mm. 3-keeled glabrous red capsules to 28mm x 17mm

Further References

• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• Standley
• Morales