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Serjania mexicana

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Willdenow

Common Names

• Barbasco
• Diente de Culebra
• Quirote Culebra (Mexico)
• Crespillo (Honduras)

Geographical Habitats

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

Natural Habitats

• Wet forest
• riversides
• coastal
• thickets
• forest

Flowering Times

• Feb-May (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Mar-Jun (Nicaragua)

Large woody tendril vine with prickly glabrescent 3-5 angled stems. Biternate or imparipinnate leaves glabrous above, glabrous or sparsely pubescent beneath, 9 crenate toothed leaflets to 142mm x 67mm. Terminal or axillary puberulent racemes, thyrses or panicles to 340mm long with btacts to 1.6mm of 3.5mm long sweet-scented white flowers, sepals to 2.5mm long, white petals to 3.5mm long. Glabrous or puberulent winged fruits 28mm x 20mm.

Further References

• Gouldstone 1983
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• FOG
• Botanicus
• Kew
• Standley
• Morales