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Rhynchosia erythrinoides

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Schlechtendahl & Chamisso

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Jamaica
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• forest edge
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Feb-Mar (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug

Climbing shrub with glabrate stems. Trifoliolate leaves puberulent above, leaflets with brown resinous dots on both surfaces. Axillary racemes to 60mm long of 11mm yellow-orange flowers with red stripes, brown-puberulent calyx, corolla 5mm long. 25mm long fruit, torulose legume

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• ILDIS
• Standley