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Senna quinquangulata

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Richard) H. S. Irwin & Barneby

Common Names

• Jorkapetie
• Quillo Huasca

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Maranhão
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• May
• Dec

Scrambling liana, shrub or slender tree to 10m with villous angled branches. Pinnate leaves glabrous above, pubescent beneath, 2 pairs of leaflets, leaflets to 100mm x 50mm. 80mm long puberulent terminal or axillary racemes or panicles with bracts to 5mm long, of 15mm long yellow flowers, pubescent calyx, pubescent sepals to 8mm long, pubescent petals to 20mm long puberulent outside. Glabrous fruit to 335mm x 15mm with beak to 8mm long.

Medicinal

Further References

• NHN
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Fsu
• Botanicus NAF
• FOPE
• SAFIO