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Diclidanthera penduliflora

Botanic Family

Polygalaceae

Author

Martius

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Acre
• Amazonas
• Pará
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Riverside
• floodplain
• forest
• seasonally inundated forest
• secondary forest
• primary forest
• cut-over woodland

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• May
• Dec

Liana, tree or shrub with slender branchlets & pendulous branches. Glabrous leaves to 110mm x 40mm. Fragrant white or cream flowers in pendulous racemes 150mm long of up to 3 flowers with bracts, yellowish or white slightly fragrant corolla villous inside to 25mm long. Black berries.

Edible fruit

Further References

• Neotrop
• Mobot
• FB
• G. Don
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE