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Rhynchosia pyramidalis

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Lamarck) Urban

Common Names

• Ojo de Cantrejo (El Savador)
• U Wich Ch'iich' (Mopan Mayan)
• Guatabo(Dominican Republic)
• Pimande (Dominican Republic)
• Bejuco Culebra
• Bejuco de Paloma
• Bejuco Pegapalo
• Bejuco Pegapelo
• Coralito
• Frijol Casampulga
• Fruta de Pitillo
• Guatabe
• Huevas de Casampulga
• John Crow Bead
• Ojitos de Picho
• Peronias
• Pimande
• Pimangue
• Tasanpulga

Geographical Habitats

• Antilles
• Argentina
• Belize
• W. Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Rio de Janeiro
• Sao Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Tobago
• Georgia - USA
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• streamside
• disturbed areas

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Jul
• Aug
• Jul-Oct

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct

Vigorous tomentose pubescent sometimes glabrous twining liana. Pubescent leaflets to 100mm wide. Racemes to 300mm long of numerous greenish flowers to 10mm long with petals greenish-yellow, standard brown-purple. Puberulent pods 25mm long x 8mm

Medicinal uses, ornamental fish poison, household cleaner

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• ILDIS
• FOPE
• SAFIO
• Standley