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Schnella guianensis

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Aublet) Wunderlin

Common Names

• Contahuemo (Huaorani)
• Monkey's ladder (Creole)
• Escalera de Mico
• Ya-outimouta (Guyana)
• Liane-boudin Tordue
• Tiane Grand-bois
• Old Lady Backbone
• Granny Backbone
• Turtle Step (Creole)
• Hikori Tarafoñ (Arawak)
• Wayamu Patï (Carib)
• Nako Ataraba (Waroa)
• Loromu Ahobi Arao (Waroa)
• Tida Aidamu Araimuhu (Waroa)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Paraná
• Pará
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rondonia
• Roraima
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Leeward Islands
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• riverbanks
• coastal rainforest
• disturbed forest
• secondary forest.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jul
• Aug
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

High-climbing twining simple-tendril liana, old stems often much flattened and perforated, young branchlets ferrugineous-strigillose. Coriaceous leaves 2-foliate or 2-lobed to 280mm x 100mm, leaflets to 70mm x 30mm glabrous above, rusty-pubescent beneath. Lax puberulent terminal racemes or panicles to 200mm long with bracts to 4mm long of fragrant white or greenish-yellow to cream flowers with brownish nectar guides in throat, brown-puberulent to 10mm long with 5 minute teeth, 5 pilose clawed petals to 18mm long, large, thick stemmed. Flat fruit rusty-orange pubescent to 100mm long, 30mm wide, explosively dehiscent pods.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• NHN
• Neotrop
• Zuchowski
• FB
• APDC
• Kew
• Fsu
• Botanicus
• NAF
• Smithsonian
• ILDIS
• Standley
• Academia ResearchGate