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Serjania polyphylla

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Radlkofer

Common Names

• Bejuco de Corrales
• Bejuco de Costilla

Geographical Habitats

• Colombia
• Hispaniola
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Virgin Islands - USA

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• dry forest
• sand dunes
• forest edge
• coastal thickets
• forest
• montane forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Sep-Apr (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Apr (Puerto Rico)

Woody tendril liana with axillary thyurses or terminal panicles or racemes of white flowers, petals to 5mm long, yellow-green winged mericarps to 30mm long, triternate leaves with 27 glabrous toothed leaflets. Red fruit

Fish-poison

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• VOPR
• The Plant List 2
• SAFIO
• Kew