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Serjania cardiospermoides

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

Schlechtendahl & Chamisso

Common Names

• Crespillo (Honduras)

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• thickets
• forest
• disturbed forest
• streamside

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Apr
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Dec

Almost glabrous woody tendril vine with 4-6-angled yellow-hirsute branches. 3-foliolate leaves with pubescent toothed leaflets to 105mm x 72mm. Axillary racemes or thyrses to 200mm long with bracts to 3.5mm of yellow or white flowers with orange centre to 8mm long, sparsely puberulent sepals to 4mm. Glabrous samaras to 47mm long x 45mm.

Further References

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