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Serjania atrolineata

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

C. Wright

Common Names

• Buiche (Mayan)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• forests
• secondary forest
• thickets
• woodland

Flowering Times

• Jan-Mar (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Feb-Apr (Nicaragua)

Woody liana with 5-6 ridged glabrescent stems. Glabrous biternate leaves with 9 serrate almost glabrous leaflets to 90mm x 35mm. Racemes or terminal panicles to 200mm long with brtacts to 1.5mm of white flowers to 5mm long, densely short-hirsute, tomentulose sepals to 2.5mm, white petals to 3mm long. Brown fruit to 25mm x 25mm, pubescent samaras.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• FOG
• Standley
• Morales