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Securidaca virgata

Botanic Family

Polygalaceae

Author

Swartz

Common Names

• Maravedi (Dominican Republic)
• Bejuco de Sopla
• Jaboncillo

Geographical Habitats

• Cuba
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Puerto Rico

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• disturbed areas
• pasture
• secondary forest
• montane forest.

Flowering Times

• All year (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Puerto Rico

Vine-like shrub or glabrous woody twiner to 5m with strigillose branches, terminal racemes to 150mm with bracts to 2.5mm long, of scented rose-pink flowers or white tinted purple, yellow petals to 10mm, strigillose pink sepals to 12mm long, pink wings to 9.2mm x 9.5mm, white glabrous keel to 8mm long, strigillose samaras to 42mm, wing 30mm x 10mm, red fruit, minutely strigillose leaves to 80mm x 13mm

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• VOPR
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• SAFIO