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Serjania caracasana

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

(Jacquin) Willdenow

Common Names

• Bejuco cuadrado (El Salvador)
• Yaguajiro Blanco (Cuba)

Geographical Habitats

• N. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Distrito Federal
• Espírito Santo
• Goiás
• Mato Grosso
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Paraiba
• Paraná
• Rio de Janeiro
• Roraima
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• scrubland
• disturbed areas
• moist forest
• riverine forest
• thickets
• riverside
• mountains
• coastal

Flowering Times

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

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct

Large glabrous or nearly glabrous liana, scandent shrub or subshrub with biternate leaves, 9 toothed glabrous leaflets, terminal leaflet to 132mm x 60mm. Terminal or axillary racemes, panicles or thyrses to 190mm long with bracts to 1.5mm to 11 flowers. 9.5mm long fragrant white flowers, glabrous outer sepals to 4.5mm, puberulent inner sepals to 5mm long, long-clawed petals to 7mm x 2mm. Glabrous purple winged fruits to 40mm long x 30mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• FOG
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• SAFIO
• Standley
• Morales