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Prionostemma aspera

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

(Lamarck) Miers

Common Names

• Benjoim
• Mucuna

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Pará
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Honduras
• SW. Mexico
• Panama
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Primary forest
• coast
• riverside
• forest
• secondary forest
• coastal thickets
• tropical forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug Sep

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Mar
• May
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Dec

Scrambling liana to12m, tree or shrub with purple branchlets. Scabrous mucronate leaves to 140mm x 50mm, grey puberulent beneath. 5mm x 13mm lemon-yellow or pale green flowers with fringed petals in axillary & terminal panicles or cymes clothed in grey tomentum with bracts & bractlets, sepals to 2.5mm x 3mm, petals 6mm wide. Dark olive-green coriaceous capsule maturing brown divided in three, to 100mm wide.

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Mobot
• NHN
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• JAA
• Standley
• Rusby
• Academia