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Pristimera celastroides

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

(Kunth) A.C. Smith

Common Names

• Tulubalam (Mayan)
• Tatsi (Mayan)
• Matapiojo (Guatelmala)
• Liane Z'amande

Geographical Habitats

• N. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Espírito Santo
• Minas Gerais
• Paraiba
• Paraná
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rondonia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Uruguay
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riverine thicket
• secondary forest
• forest remnants
• thickets
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Nov-Jan (Puerto Rico)
• Jun-Jul (Leeward Islands)

Fruiting Times

Large high-climbing glabrous woody twining liana with densely lenticellate branchlets. Crenate leaves to 160mm x 70mm. Axillary cymes or panicles to 110mm long with bracts to 1mm, of green aromatic cream or yellow-green flowers to 4.5mm diameter, petals to 2.2mm long. Fruit capsule with three lobes, to 75mm long x 40mm. Woody twining vine, lenticellate stems. Coriaceous glabrous leaves to 110mm x 45mm. Axillary cymes to 50mm x 50mm or solitary flowers, greenish-yellow petals to 2.6mm long. Fruit 50mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• FOG
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• VOPR
• SAFIO