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Tetrapterys styloptera

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

A. Jussieu

Common Names

• Wee-po-awk (Tanimuka)
• Bee-ra-ree-a-ma (Makuna)
• Ho-ree-a-mee-see (Makuna)
• Nö-ñá-mee-koo-ma (Makuna)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Pará
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riverside
• seasonally inundated areas
• forests
• savanna

Flowering Times

• Feb-May (Nicaragua)
• Feb (Colombia)

Fruiting Times

• Apr-May & Oct (Nicaragua)

Liana or shrub with glabrous lenticellate striate branches twining to 10m. Mostly glabrous leaves to 120mm x 50mm. Few-flowered axillary & terminal racemes with pubescent bracts to 1.5mm long & bracteoles to 1.5mm long, of yellow flowers with 2 bractlets to 2.5mm long, green calyx to 5mm wide, pilose sepals to 3mm long, denticulate yellow or red petals to 6mm x 2.5mm. Glabrous or pubescent samaras to 5mm x 6mm x 2mm with 3mm wings.Pubescent samaras to 30mm long maturing brown.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• FOPE
• HUBM
• Rusby
• HUA