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Schnella glabra
Schnella glabra
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- (Jacquin) Dugand
Common Names
- Turtle Vine
- Crown Vine
- Wreath Vine
- Escalera de Mono
- Patevaca (Colombia)
Geographical Habitats
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Acre
- Amazonas
- Goiás
- Maranhão
- Mato Grosso
- Mato Grosso do Sul
- Pará
- Rondonia
- Roraima
- Tocantins - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Honduras
- S. Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Suriname
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- water edges
- floodplain
- riverside
- disturbed forest
- secondary forest edge
- woodland
- shrubland
Flowering Times
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
Fruiting Times
High-climbing simple or bifid-tendril liana to 15m or tree, unarmed or spines on glabrous branches. Stems often compressed and perforated with large holes. Bilobed coriaceous leaves glabrous or pubescent above, brownish pubescent beneath to 120mm x 60mm, branches & calyx clothed with rusty hairs. Short dense pubescent terminal & axillary racemes to 40mm long with bracts & bractlets to 7mm long. Fragrant white or white streaked or spotted red or purple to yellow flowers pilose outside, green calyx, pubescent calyx tube to 8mm long, calyx teeth to 6mm long, 5 villous white petals to 25mm long, with brown hairs outside, 1 petal spotted or striped purple. Glabrate legumes 100mm long x 25mm wide maturing brown.
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Huxley 1992
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- FB
- APDC
- Fsu
- Botanicus
- NAF
- ILDIS
- FOPE
- Kew
- Standley
- HUA