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Plukenetia verrucosa

Botanic Family

Euphorbiaceae

Author

J.E. Smith

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Amapá
• N. Amazonas
• N Pará
• Roraima - Brazil
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge
• secondary forest
• disturbed areas

Flowering Times

• Jun Jan
• Mar
• Jul (Guyana)

Fruiting Times

• Jun jan
• Jul
• Aug (Guyana)

Twining monoecious vine with glabrescent to sparsley pubescent stems, leaves to 120mm x 70mm sparsely pubescent on margin & veins, axillary or terminal racemes of green to white flowers, flowers with pubescent triangulat bracts 1mm long, staminate flowers with 4 sepals to 1mm long, pistillate flowers with 4 sepals to 1.5mm long, white fruit a4-lobed capsule 7mm x 15mm

Further References

• NHN
• Mobot
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Kew
• Smithsonian