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Poiretia punctata
Poiretia punctata
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- (Willdenow) Desvaux
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Bolivia
- Bahia
- Distrito Federal
- Goiás
- Minas Gerais
- Paraná
- Pernambuco
- Rio de Janeiro
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Cuba
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Panama
- Peru
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- scrubland
- streamside
- secondary vegetation
- thorn scrub
- thickets
- disturbed areas
- mountains
- woodland
- coastal thickets
Flowering Times
- Feb
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous glabrous or pubescent twining climber or shrub to 4m with slender branchlets. Pinnate leaves to 30mm long with 2 pairs of leaflets, glabrous leaflets to 50mm x 50mm. Many-flowered axillary racemes to 35mm long of 5-8mm long yellow flowers covered with glandular dots, glabrous calyx 2mm long. Articulated glabrous or puberulent legume to 30mm x 4mm.
Further References
- Mobot
- net
- Neotrop
- FB
- NYBG
- APDC
- The Plant List 2
- CPC
- Botanicus
- FOPE
- Gleason & Moldenke
- Standley