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Lycianthes glandulosa

Botanic Family

Solanaceae

Author

(Ruiz & Pavon) Bitter

Common Names

• Bimitsexejoni (Chacobo)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Paraguay
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• riverside
• forest forest margin

Flowering Times

• Jul
• Oct

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Jul
• Nov
• Dec

Scandent shrub or liana with orange-red fruit, axillary white flowers, corolla to 15mm long, reddish-black berry 10mm diameter to 20mm long, leaves rusty-pubescent especially beneath

Leaves & fruits have medicinal uses

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• RSNRV
• FP
• Rodriguesia