Securidaca coriacea Bonpland ex Steud.

Elsota coriacea (Bonpl.) Blake
Securidaca coriacea Bonpl. Ges. Nat. Freunde Berlin Mag. 2: 47. 1808.
Securidaca mollis H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 5: 421. 1823.
Securidaca pubescens Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald 80. 1852. Not 5. pubescens DC. 1824.
Securidaca lomenlosa Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 1:63. 1879. Not 5. lomentosa St.-Hil. 1829.
Elsota mollis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 46. 1891.
Securidaca volubilis mollis Chod. Bot. Jahrb. 36: 380. 1905.
Scandent shrub; branches and branchlets softly short-pilose with dull spreading hairs; leaves oval, oblong-ovate, or ovate, 3.7-7.5 cm. long, 2.2-4 cm. wide, obtuse to rounded, sometimes emarginate, at base broadly rounded, chartaceous, above deep-green, somewhat lucid, rather sparsely short-pilose with dull spreading hairs on surface, densely so on margin, reticulate with 8-10 pairs of veins, beneath dullgreen but scarcely paler, softly and rather densely spreading-pilose; petioles spreading-pilose, 2.5-4 mm. long; peduncles 3-8 mm. long; racemes rather dense, the axis 2.2-4 cm. long; bracts lance-subulate, pilose, deciduous, 1.8 mm. long; pedicels densely short-pilose, 5-8 mm. long; flowers pink; sepals oval or suborbicular, densely sordid-pilose except near the ciliate margin, 2.5-3.5 mm. long; wings suborbicular, emarginate, 8-8.2 mm. long, 5.8-6 mm. wide, ciliate toward base of lamina, sparsely ciliolate above, pubescent on claw and down midline; keel long-ciliate on saccate portion about to middle, with small crest, 10.5 mm. long; samara greenish, densely short-pilose with dull spreading hairs, 5.2-7 cm. long; fruiting cell very plump, elevated-reticulate, 7.5-11 mm. long, very narrowly margined on upper side, the margin obscurely decurrent into the proper wing; wing obovate, at base slightly narrower than the fruiting cell, 3.7-6 cm. long, 5-5.5 mm. wide near base, 17-22 mm. wide near middle.
Type locality: Forests along the Amazon River. Distribution: Panama and Trinidad to South America.