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Thinouia obliqua

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

Radlkofer

Common Names

• Pacaguasca (Quichua)

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Paraguay
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed forest
• forests
• riverside
• creekside forest
• primary & secondary forest
• floodplain forest
• woodland.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• May
• Jul
• Oct

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jun
• Jul

Tendril liana or glabrous scandent shrub with striate lenticellate branches. Trifoliate leaves, mucronulate leaflets, terminal leaflet to 100mm long. Pyberulent 30mm thyrses or panicles with or without tendrils, 90mm in fruit, white flowers, small petals fringed at edge in small racemes or umbels, bifid tendrils. Glabrous fruit 60mm x 50mm, wings to 40mm x 15mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE