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Fagraea berteroana

Botanic Family

Gentianaceae

Author

A. Gray ex Bentham

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Queensland - Australia
• Caroline Is.
• Cook Is.
• Fiji
• Marquesas
• Rapa
• Society Is.
• Tubai - French Polynesia
• Marianas
• Loyalty Is. - New Caledonia
• New Hebrides
• Nuie
• Papua New Guinea
• Samoa
• Tonga

Natural Habitats

• Primary and secondary forest
• riverside
• coastal
• mangroves. Medicinal uses and perfume making and leis

Flowering Times

• All Year (Malesia)

Fruiting Times

• Aug (Malesia)

Hemi-epiphytic shrubby tree, or erect or scrambling shrub with coraceous leaves to 160mm x 120mm. Terminal cymes or racemes of fragrant flowers, calyx to 25mm long,calyx tube 6mm long with 5 lobes 5mm long, corolla tube to 150mm long, corolla lobes to 20mm long, orange to red berry to 55mm x 45mm with calyx lobes

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• Flora Malesiana
• Smithsonian