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Lycianthes pauciflora
Lycianthes pauciflora
- Botanic Family
- Solanaceae
- Author
- (Vahl) Bitter
Common Names
- Mélongène-liane
- Bâtard
- Mélongène-liane-razier
Geographical Habitats
- NE. Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guyana
- Leeward Islands
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Lowland tropical rain forest
- secondary vegetation
- riverside
- forest
- roadside
- forest edge
- montane forest
Flowering Times
- Oct-Jan (Leeward Islands)
Fruiting Times
Twining or repent liana, tree or shrub with , rusty-tomentose branches becoming glabrescent. Nndulated leaves to 145mm x 70mm, glabrous above, tomentose beneath. 1-5 flowered extra-axillary umbels of white or blue flowers with yellow centres, 10-ribbed 10-dentate calyx 5mm long with 2mm teeth, greenish or white corolla to 15mm long. Orange to red berries to 15mm diameter. Scandent shrub with glabrate stems. Leaves to 90mm x 40mm, glabrous above & pilose beneath. Umbels of 7 flowers, toothed calyx to 2.5mm long. glabrous outside, teeth to 1.25mm long, stellate tomentose corolla.
Further References
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- FP
- Botanicus
- Smithsonian
- SAFIO
- Standley