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Peritassa laevigata

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

(Hoffmannsegg ex Link) A.C. Smith

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Distrito Federal
• Espirito Santo
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Pará
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• seasonally inundated area
• riverside.

Flowering Times

• Mar-Apr (Trinidad & Tobago)
• Aug-Jan (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Glabrous twining shrub, liana or tree with lenticellate branchlets. Coriaceous leaves to 190mm x 95mm, roughish beneath & somewhat crenulate or entire. Green-yellow or cream fragrant flowers with bractlets in axillary corymbs or panicles to 80mm long with minute papery bracts & bracteoles, papery sepals, fringed petals to 2.8mm x 1.5mm. Greenish-yellow coriaceous fruit turning orange to 35mm diameter

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• Botanicus
• FOPE