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Securidaca coriacea

Botanic Family

Polygalaceae

Author

Bonpland

Common Names

• Bejuco de Jabon (Venezuela)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• forest
• riverside forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jun
• Jul

Liana or twining shrub with terminal racemes to 40mm long with bracts to 1.8mm long, of magenta flowers with pilose sepals to 3.5mm long, wings 8.2mm x 6mm, keel 10.5mm long, fruits yellow with purple-brown to 12mm long, pilose winged fruit to 70mm long, pubescent branchlets, leaves puberulous above pubescent beneath to 75mm x 40mm

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• Botanicus
• NAF