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Plukenetia polyadenia

Botanic Family

Euphorbiaceae

Author

Müller of Aargau

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre - Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• River edge
• forest
• lowland tropical rain forest
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jun
• Jul
• Sep
• Dec Feb& Aug (Guyana)

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Jul
• Aug
• Nov Aug & Oct (Guyanas)

High-climbing dioecious or monoecious glabrous liane, branchlets often twining. Glabrous lustrous leaves to 140mm x 100mm. Axillary racemes or panicles usually unisexual, of greenish-yellow to white flowers 2.5mm long, pistillate flowers to 7mm across with triangular bracts to 1mm long, staminate flowers with 4 glabrous sepals to 4mm long, pistillate flowers with 4 glabrous triangular sepals to 1mm long. Glabrous green berries with brown markings to 100mm x 110mm

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Smithsonian
• FOPE
• Kew