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Schnella microstachya

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Raddi

Common Names

• Iwadacame (Huaorani)

Geographical Habitats

• N. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Espirito Santo
• Minas Gerais
• Paraná
• Rio de Janeiro
• Roraima
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• S. Mexico
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Secondary vegetation
• forests
• riverine forest
• riverside
• cut-over gallery forest

Flowering Times

• Mar-Sep (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Nov (Brazil)

Tall glabrescent woody tendril liana, scrambling vine or tree, young branches with rusty tomentum. Bilobed glabrous leaves to 100mm x 100mm. Terminal, sub-terminal & axillary racemes to 230mm long of small white or yellow flowers to 7mm long with minute bracts. 4-5 calyx lobes, petals to 5mm long. Purple-red-brown tomentose mucronate pods to 70mm long x 18mm, yellowish-green fruit.

Dried roots & stems used to cure boils & skin problems

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• APDC
• Wunderlin & Eilers
• Botanicus
• Kew
• Rodriguesia
• FOPE