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Tetrapterys inaequalis

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

Cavanilles

Common Names

• Bejuco de Paralejo
• Bejuco de Sopla

Geographical Habitats

• Amazonas - Brazil
• Hispaniola
• Puerto Rico
• Virgin Islands
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• disturbed areas
• riverside
• secondary forest

Flowering Times

• Sep-Nov (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Mar (Puerto Rico)

Woody twining liana with pubescent branches, terminal panicles or umbels to 4 flowers, yellow flowers, sepals to 4mm long, undulate petals to 7.5mm long, strigillose-puberulent samaras to 40mm long, leaves glabrescent above, glabrous or puberulent beneath to 160mm long

Further References

• FB
• VOPR
• NAF