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Casimirella ampla

Botanic Family

Icacinaceae

Author

(Miers) R.A. Howard

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Secondary vegetation
• forests
• riverside
• secondary forest
• forest margin.

Flowering Times

• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• Nov

Scandent rhizomatous shrub or liana with lenticellate stems, young branches glabrous. Glabrate leaves to 200mm x 100mm. Terminal or axillary strigose umbels to 200mm long with bracts to 3mm, white or greenish flowers with bracteoles to 3mm, densely hirsute calyx with lobes to 1.6mm x 0.5mm, strigose petals to 4.3mm x 2mm, villose within. Pubescent greenish-yellow to orange fruit to 80mm x 40mm.

Poisonous

Latex used to relieve toothache, food

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• JAA
• FOPE
• academia