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Zapoteca amazonica

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Bentham) H.M. Hernández

Common Names

• Casco de Vaca (Peru)

Geographical Habitats

• Acre - Brazil
• NE. Peru

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• riverside forest
• floodplain forest
• moist forest

Flowering Times

• Apr
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jun
• Dec

Glabrous liana, shrub, subshrub or tree to 9m. Bi-pinnate leaves with one pair of pinnae, leaflets to 200mm x 80mm. White flowers tinged red in lax terminal panicles with bracts to 0.75mm, 5-dentate calyx to 1.5mm long, greenish-white corolla to 4.5mm long. Coriaceous purple fruits to 200mm x 10mm

Further References

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