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Teramnus uncinatus

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Linnaeus) Swartz

Common Names

• Cresta de Gallo Blanca
• Frijolillo Peludo

Geographical Habitats

• Bahamas
• Bolivia
• Distrito Federal
• Goiás
• Minas Gerais
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Cayman Islands
• Colombia
• Comoros
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Madagascar
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Scrubland
• disturbed areas
• coastal
• scrub forest
• pasture
• roadside
• secondary forest
• thickets
• riverside shrubland

Flowering Times

• Sep-Mar (Nicaragua)
• Aug (Bolivia)
• Oct-Jan (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Mar (Nicaragua)
• Oct-Mar (Puerto Rico)

Liana or twining hairy slightly woody vine, branches & underside of leaves clothed with silky down, angular stem. Trifoliolate leaves strigulose above, sericeous pubescent beneath, leaflets to 90mm long. Axillary pseudo-racemes to 150mm long or solitary white, blue, pink or purple flowers in axillary inflorescences, flowers 7mm long, standard 4mm long, wings longer than keel, keel whitish. Ferrugineous-tomentose fruit to 70mm long x 4mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• ILDIS
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• SAFIO
• Standley