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Leretia cordata

Botanic Family

Icacinaceae

Author

Velloso

Common Names

• Cuero de Sapo (Panama)
• Puca Yacu (Brazil)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Espírito Santo
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge
• disturbed areas
• forest
• floodplain forest
• coastal forest
• treed savanna

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Apr
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct

Liana, small tree or shrub with angular strigose-pubescent branches becoming glabrate, corky bark. Leaves to 300mm x 120mm white-pubescent above becoming glabrate and white or yellowish hairy beneath. Strigose axillary panicles to 180mm x 100mm with pubescent or strigose bracts, white or pale yellow flowers 3mm long with bracteoles, calyx to 2mm diameter with hairy or strigose lobes to 8mm, hirsute petals to 5.5mm x 2mm, tomentose within. Pale green glabrate drupe maturing dark red-purple 60mm x 25mm x 20mm

Further References

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