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Serjania membranacea

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

Splitgerber

Common Names

• Chuntamuiu (Mayna Jivaro)
• Choloque (Peru)
• Bejuco Costillo (Colombia)

Geographical Habitats

• Amazonas
• Pará
• Rondonia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• forest
• disturbed forest
• seasonally inundated areas
• riverside

Flowering Times

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

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Aug
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Liana or pubescent scandent twining shrub with tendrils, striate glabrate young branches 4-6 angled. Biternate leaves to 140mm x 120mm, 9 dentate mucronulate crenate-dentate leaflets to 100mm x 50mm almost glabrous. Terminal or axillary thyrses to 300mm long with bracts 1.3mm long of 7-9 flowers. Aromatic 4mm long white flowers, puberulent or glabrescent sepals inner sepals to 3mm long, white petals to 5mm x 2.5mm. Glabrous winged pink to red fruits to 40mm long x 25mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• Botanicus
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Kew
• Standley
• Morales