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Urvillea ulmacea

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

Kunth

Common Names

• Yedra (Mexico)
• Puluxtacoc (Mayan)
• Apaac (USA)

Geographical Habitats

• N. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Minas Gerais - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Windward Islands
• Texas - USA

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• disturbed areas
• thickets
• montane areas
• plains
• prairies

Flowering Times

• Nov-Mar (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Feb (Mexico)

Tomentose or sparsely pubescent twining woody herbaceous tendril liana with dark wine-red 3-grooved stems. 3-foliolate leaves glabrate above, pilose or tomentose beneath, often leafless during dry season, doubly serrated crenate mucronulate leaflets glabrescent beneath, terminal leaflet to 90mm x 45mm. Puberulent axillary panicles or racemes to 110mm long with bracts to 1mm of 4mm diameter white flowers, 5 sepals to 2mm, inner 3 twice as long as outer 2, 4 white petals to 2mm. Fruit a glabrous capsule to 40mm x 20mm with 3-angled samaras to 30mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• RSNRV
• FOG
• Botanicus
• USDA
• FOSEUS
• FOPE
• Standley
• Morales
• USNH