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Serjania racemosa

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

Schumacher

Conservation Status

Endangered/vulnerable

Common Names

• Ardado (Mexico)

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexcio
• Nicaragua

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• cloud forest
• forest edge
• disturbed areas
• forest
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Oct-Jan (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Mar (Nicaragua)

Glabrous or nearly so liana with 4-6 angled glabrescent branches. Biternate leaves with 9 serrated leaflets to 65mm x 30mm, pubescent beneath becoming glabrescent. Terminal or axillary puberulent thyrses or panicles to 120mm long with bracts to 1.8mm of 3mm long white or pale yellow aromatic flowers, p[uberulent sepals to 2.5mm, white petals to 2.6mm. Almost glabrous winged fruit to 25mm long x 17mm.

Further References

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