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Stylosanthes guianensis

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Aublet) Swartz

Common Names

• Gui ya na bi hua dou (Pinyin)
• Brazilian Lucerne
• Stylo
• Tropical Lucerne

Geographical Habitats

• Bahia
• Ceará
• Distrito Federal
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Paraná
• Paraiba
• Pernambuco
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Roraima
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Belize
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Honduras
• W. & S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Venezuela
• Domincan Republic
• Leeward Islands
• Trinidad

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• cloud forest
• savanna edge
• riverside
• montane areas
• pastrure
• grassland
• coastal.

Flowering Times

• Aug-Mar (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Mar (Nicaragua)

Erect pubescent or glabrous perennial herb or subshrub occasionally climbing. Trifoliate leaves, puberulous mucronate leaflets to 20mm x 8mm. Terminal spikes with bracts & bracteoles to 40 flowers, 8mm x 5mm orange to yellow flowers. Glabrous pod to 30mm x 2mm enclosed in poersistent calyx, ending in a hook.

Further References

• FOC
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Standley