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Serjania acuta

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

Triana & Planchon

Common Names

• Bejuco Juriso (Costa Rica)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Alagoas
• Bahia
• Espirito Santo
• Pará
• Paraiba
• Pernambuco
• Rio de Janeiro
• Sergipe - Brazil
• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Chiapas
• Hidalgo - Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• disturbed forest
• riverside
• forest edge
• scrubland
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Feb (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Apr (Nicaragua)

Scandent woody vine with 6-furrowed pubescent branches. Biternate leaves, 9 leaflets to 110mm x 55mm, glabrous above, rufous tomentose or pilose beneath. Terminal or axillary thyrses or panicles to 360mm long with bracts to 2mm, rufous-tomentulose pink or white flowers, petals 4.5mm long, tomentulose sepals to 3.5mm. Puberulent winnged reddish fruit to 30mm long x 21mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• FOG
• Standley
• Morales