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Securidaca longifolia

Botanic Family

Polygalaceae

Author

Poeppig & Endlicher

Propagation

C.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Pará
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Guyana
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• in water
• riverside forest

Flowering Times

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

Fruiting Times

• Jun
• Aug

High-climbing liana or shrub twining with puberulent branchlets. Leaves to 150mm x 60mm, glabrous above & puberulent beneath. Densely flowered puberulent terminal & axillary racemes to 150mm long, fragrant mauve to pink flowers to 10mm long. Violet fruit to 20mm long with 10mm long wing.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• FOPE