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Piptadenia flava

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Sprengel ex de Candolle) Bentham

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Trinidad
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• rocky pasture
• streamside thickets

Flowering Times

• Aug-Nov (Nic)
• Oct (Hon)
• Dec (Mex)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Jan
• May (Nic) Dec (Mex)

Sometimes scandent glabrous spiny or unarmed tree or shrub. Bipinnate leaves of 6-10 pairs of 12-25 glabrous mucronate leaflets to 10mm long. Axillary & terminal panicles to 80mm long, 18mm yellow flowers, petals to 2mm long, calyx 1mm long. 115mm x 18mm mucronate glabrous fruit.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• APDC
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• NAF
• FOPE