Família/Family: Fabaceae
Grupo/Group: Dicotiledónea/Dicotyledon.
Forma de vida/Life form:
Trepadora/Vine
Forma de vida 2 / Life form 2:
V
Duración de vida/Lifespan:
Perenne/Perennial.
Sustrato/Substrate:
Terrestre/Terrestrial.
Distribución nativa/Native range:
Antillas Mayores (Puerto Rico, Cuba), Centroamérica (Panamá), Sudamérica y el Viejo Mundo. / The Greater Antilles (Puerto Rico, Cuba), Central America (Panama), South America and the Old World.
Mapa de ubicaciones / Map of locations
Notas/Notes:
Axelrod (2011) stated that this was probably native to the Paleotropics, but Acevedo-RodrÃguez & Strong (2005) and Acevedo-RodrÃguez & Strong (2012, 2016) accept this as native to the West Indies and Puerto Rico.