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Peritassa huanucana

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

(Loesener) A.C. Smith

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• N. Brazil
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riversides
• seasonally inundated areas
• riverine forest
• floodplain forest

Flowering Times

• Jun
• Jul
• Sep

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Twining liana with glabrous coriaceous leaves to 180mm x 85mm. Solitary axillary brown tomentulose finally glabrate inflorescence with bracts & bractlets to 2mm long, greenish-yellow flowers to 3mm diameter with bractlets, 5 fimbriate sepals to 1.25mm long, 5 petals 2mm x 1mm, orange fruit

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• FOPE