Fabaceae FAMILY

Rhynchosia longeracemosa

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

The plant has been used as an hallucinogen and narcotic[ 1565 Title Biblioteca Digital de la Medicina Tradicional Mexicana Publication Author Website http://www.medicinatradicionalmexicana.unam.mx/index.php Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A very valuable on-line resource with detailed information on many hundreds of medicinal plants used in Mexico ].

Botanical Description

Rhynchosia longeracemosa is an evergreen climbing shrub with twining stems; it can grow 3 - 5 metres tall[ 1565 Title Biblioteca Digital de la Medicina Tradicional Mexicana Publication Author Website http://www.medicinatradicionalmexicana.unam.mx/index.php Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A very valuable on-line resource with detailed information on many hundreds of medicinal plants used in Mexico ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeC. America - Costa Rica, north to Guatemala, southern and eastern Mexico

HabitatDeciduous tropical forest, oak forest and mixed pine-oak forest; at elevations from 150 - 1,300 metres[ 1565 Title Biblioteca Digital de la Medicina Tradicional Mexicana Publication Author Website http://www.medicinatradicionalmexicana.unam.mx/index.php Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A very valuable on-line resource with detailed information on many hundreds of medicinal plants used in Mexico ]. Moist or wet thickets or forest, sometimes in oak forest, often on limestone; at elevations from 1,000 - 2,000 metres[ 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ].