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Pisonia aculeata
Pisonia aculeata
- Botanic Family
- Nyctaginaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
Common Names
- Xian guo teng (Pinyin)
- Pull-back-and-hold
- Hold Back
- Prickly Mampoo (Puerto Rico)
- Devilsclaw Pisonia
- Cock-spur (Bahamas)
- Cockspur (Jamaica
- USA)
- Devil's Claw (USA)
- Fingripo (Jamaica)
- Hold-back (Bahamas)
- Pull-back (Bahamas)
- Pullback (USA)
- Tiger Nail Embra (Belize)
- Wait-a-bit (Jamaica)
- Pisonie mayacaule
- Croc de Chien (Haiti)
- Mayacaule (Haiti)
- Caltute (Mexico)
- Crucito (El Salvador)
- Escambrón (Puerto Rico)
- Granjeno (Mexico)
- Granjeno Prieto (Mexico)
- Iscambrom Blanco (Honduras)
- Tum Tum Prieto (Mexico)
- Uña de Gato (Cuba
- Domincan Republic
- Mexico
- Puerto Rico)
- Yaguá Pindá (Paraguay)
- Zarza (Cuba)
- Huitzcocólotl (Nahuatl- Mexico)
- Kròk Chen (Creole-Haiti)
- Loj (Huasteco- Mexico)
- Mayakaul (Crele- Haiti)
- Mitz-Matlayahuale (Nahuatl-Mexico)
- Secun Dup (Kuna- Panama)
- Yajk'ech Schoch'ch'ish (Tzeltal-Mexico)
- Escambrón
Geographical Habitats
- N. Argentina
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- Western Australia - Australia
- Bahamas
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Borneo
- Brazil
- Cambodia
- Hainan
- Taiwan - China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Guatemala
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Sulawesi
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Laos
- Leeward Islands
- Madagascar
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- New Caledonia
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Puerto Rico
- Saudi Arabia
- Aldabra - Seychelles
- Natal - South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Tonga
- Uganda
- Cayman Islands - UK
- Florida
- Texas - USA
- Venezuela
- Venezuelan Antilles
- Vietnam
- Windward Islands
- Yemen
Natural Habitats
- Coastal scrub
- stream banks
- forest
- coastal thickets
- disturbed areas
- primary & secondary forest
- hedges
- dry forest
- forest margin
- riverside
- montane areas
Flowering Times
- Aug-Oct (Australia)
- Jan-Jun (China)
- Dec-Jun (Puerto Rico)
Fruiting Times
Lianaceous, dioecious large woody climbing spiny shrub to 20m or tree with axillary recurved spines on branches & trunk to 10mm long, glabrate branches, leaves glabrous above, glabrous or pubescent beneath 150mm x 60mm. Axillary & terminal cymes 100mm across, of scented green, white, yellow or brownish flowers, staminate flowers to 3mm long, yellowish-pubescent outside, tomentulose yellowish-green pistillate cymes, 15mm x 4mm 5-ribbed black-brown pubescent club-shaped anthocarp with rows of sticky glands,
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Jones & Gray 1977
- FOC
- FCP
- FB
- JDH
- The Plant List 2
- NYBG
- VOPR
- FOTA
- NAF
- Flora Malesiana
- Gleason & Moldenke
- SAFIO