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Peritassa dulcis

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

(Bentham) Miers

Common Names

• Waiatuma

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas - Brazil
• Guyana
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• riversides
• seasonally inundated areas.

Flowering Times

• Feb
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• May
• Sep

Liana, shrub or tree with lenticellate branchlets. Crenate-serrate leaves to 150mm x 70mm. Inflorescence to 30mm long with bracts to 2mm long. Yellow flowers in cymes of 3-5 flowers with minute bractlets, papery sepals, petals to 2.8mm x 1mm. Yellow berry to 40mm diameter.

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• FOPE
• The Plant List 2