Slender, herbaceous vine; stems twining or prostrate, and puberulent, pilose, or glabrate. Leaves trifoliolate; stipules lanceolate, to 6 mm long; petioles 2-7 cm long; rachis 5-10 mm long; leaflets ovate-deltoid, acuminate or acute, truncate at base, thin, sparsely strigillose, the terminal leaflet 2.5-8.5 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, the lateral leaflets smaller, the basal veins 3. Inflorescences fasciculate-racemose, often crowded at apex of peduncle; peduncles equaling or surpassing leaves; rachises 2-5 cm long; pedicels to 2 mm long; flowers pale violet, green in bud; bracteoles shorter than calyx; calyx ca 3 mm long, closely subtended by acute bracts to one-third the length of the calyx; petals white to pale blue on outer margins; standard 1-1.5 cm long, about as broad as long; keel ciliate, closely enveloping style and stamens, turning sideways after anthesis and spreading the outer margins of the standard apart; stamens diadelphous; filaments slender, free in apical half; style bearing sharp erect trichomes near apex. Legumes 4-5 cm long, to 3 mm wide, acuminate at apex, strigose, with a minute marginal rib on both sides of each valve, the valves twisting at maturity; seeds subcylindrical, greenish-white with purple mottling, to 3 mm long, leaning out from the dehisced valves. Croat 5256, 7032. Normal movements of the flower parts do not appear to force much pollen from the open end of the carinal tube. Guatemala to northern South America; West Indies.
Bocas Species Database
Characteristics: Bejuco de flores blancas. Frutos lineares de ± 4 cm de largo. Vine with white flowers. Fruit linear ± 4 cm long.