Family: SapindaceaeDistribution: Common along hill slopes on low shrubs. Distributed in India and Abyssinia. Photographed at Velugonda hills of Eastren ghats in Nellore district.Description: Tendrillate climbing herbs. Stems wiry. Leaves alternate, biternate, pubescent leaflets 2.5-5x1-3.5cm ovate-lanceolate, deeply incised, obtuse, end one mucronate. Flowers 3-5mm across, white in axillary corymbose racemes, the lowest pair of pedicels transformed into spiral tendrils. Sepals 4, concave, Petals 4 in two pairs, Disk of 2 glands opposite to 2 lower petals, Stamens 8,filaments unequal connate below, Ovary 3 celled, style short 3 fid, Fruit an inflated trigonous capsule.Capsule globose, not winged. Seeds black with a small orbicular white hilum. Reference: e floras, ENVIS, Flora of Madras Presidency by J.S.Gamble. Flora of Nellore district by B.Suryanarayana and A.S.Rao, ENVIS
Summary[edit] Description: English: Herbaceous climber with hairy stems up to 10 m long. Leaves are 6–16 cm long; leaflets are irregularly toothed. Flowerheads are compound with 8–10 mm long, white flowers. Fruit are 5–6 cm long capsules. Flowers in Spring and Summer. A native of Tropical america, Africa, West Indies and weed in many tropical countries. It is widespread in moist situations, chiefly coastal districts north from Picton, occasionally naturalised in inland districts. Date: 31 July 2006, 16:21:45. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/73840284@N04/48757419477/. Author: Macleay Grass Man. Camera location28° 40′ 49.61″ S, 152° 59′ 58.39″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-28.680447; 152.999553.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Flowers of Cardiospermum grandiflorum, an alien plant on the Canary Islands Deutsch: Cardiospermum grandiflorum, ein Neophyt auf Gomera(kanarische Inseln). Date: 9 October 2009. Source: Own work. Author: Bernd Sauerwein.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Herbaceous climber with hairy stems up to 10 m long. Leaves are 6–16 cm long; leaflets are irregularly toothed. Flowerheads are compound with 8–10 mm long, white flowers. Fruit are 5–6 cm long capsules. Flowers in Spring and Summer. A native of Tropical america, Africa, West Indies and weed in many tropical countries. It is widespread in moist situations, chiefly coastal districts north from Picton, occasionally naturalised in inland districts. Date: 30 March 2006, 13:23:08. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/73840284@N04/48756902463/. Author: Macleay Grass Man.