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Securidaca diversifolia

Botanic Family

Polygalaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) S. F. Blake

Common Names

• Easter Flower
• Flor de Arrayán (Colombia)
• Easter Violet
• Gallito (Little Rooster)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Amazonas - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad &Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• wooded savannas
• marsh
• open fields
• disturbed areas
• thickets
• secondary vegetation. coastal forests & thickets

Flowering Times

• Mar-Apr (Nicaragua)
• Apr-May (Windward Islands)

Fruiting Times

• Apr (Nicaragua
• Venezuela)

High-climbing woody twining liana or evergreen scandent shrub to 15m, glabrate branches, tendrils. Pubescent stems & leaves, leaves densely strigulose on both surfaces glabrous or puberulent above, minutely strigulose beneath to 120m x 57mm. Terminal & axillary racemes to 140mm long with bracts to 7mm long, fragrant rose or purple flower to 11.8mm long with darker purple or yellow keel, sepals pubescent on mid line to 3.85mm long, wings 11.8mm x 8mm, keel 8.8mm, petals to 11mm long. Green samaras to 60mm long, densely hairy, wedge-shaped, wings 130mm x 35mm, fruit to 8mm long.

Used as cordage

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• Llamas 2003
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• FOG
• VOPR
• NAF
• Smithsonian
• FOPE
• Standley
• Rusby
• HUA