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Zapoteca portoricensis
Zapoteca portoricensis
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- (Jacquin) H. M. Hernández
Common Names
- White Stickpea
- Carboncillo Blanco (Costa Rica)
Geographical Habitats
- Bahamas
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Acre
- Ceará
- Goiás
- Mato Grosso
- Minas Gerais
- Pará
- Pernambuco
- Rondonia - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Venezuela
- Virgin Islands
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Coastal
- floodplain forest
- secondary vegetation
- montane forest & shrubland
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Pubescent small tree or scandent unarmed shrub to 3m with glabrous branches, pubescent young branches. Bipinnate leaves, 2-6 pinnae, leaflets to 16mm x 2.5mm & up to 30 pairs. Axillary or terminal spikes or racemes of 8mm long green & white glabrous flowers, calyx to 2mm long, corolla to 4mm long. Mucronate glabrous fruit to 165mm long.
Further References
- Mobot
- NYBG
- FB
- APDC
- The Plant List 2
- Botanicus
- FOTA
- NAF
- ILDIS
- FOPE
- SAFIO
- Standley