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Celtis iguanaea
Celtis iguanaea
- Botanic Family
- Cannabaceae
- Author
- (Jacquin) Sargent
Common Names
- Chincherro
- Chichapi (Bolivia)
- Noquichapirr (Bolivia)
- Azufaifo
- Cock Spur
Geographical Habitats
- N. Argentina
- Belize
- Costa Rica
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Bolivia
- Acre
- Alagoas
- Amazonas
- Bahia
- Ceará
- Goiás
- Marahão
- Mato Grosso
- Minas Gerais
- Pará
- Paraná
- Pernambuco
- Piaui
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rio Grande
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Rondonia
- Roraima
- Santa Catarina
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guyana
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Suriname
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Caribbean
- Antilles
- Cuba
- Hispaniola
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Puerto Rico
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Florida
- Texas - USA
- Virgin Islands
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- riverine forest
- forest edge
- secondary forest
- lakeside
- riverside
- coastal areas
- thickets
- montane forest
Flowering Times
- All year Feb-May (Puerto Rico) may-Jul (Dominica)
Fruiting Times
- All year May-Sep (Puerto Rico)
Scandent pubescent or glabrous usually armed shrub, scrambler, liana or tree to 12m with dense golden hairs on branchlets & young leaves. Crenate serrate leaves glabrous or puberulent above, glabrous beneath to 35mm long, paired recurved spines to 5-12mm long in leaf axils. Short racemes or axillary cymes of flowers greenish-cream with white spots, male flowers yellowish-white up to 10 per cyme, female pale green. Glabrous yellow sweet fruit a 4-angled orange drupe to 14mm long x 15mm diameter,
Edible fruit. Medicinal uses
Further References
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- Smithsonian
- FOSEUS
- Rodriguesia
- FOPE
- SAFIO
- Academia