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Petrea maynensis

Botanic Family

Verbenaceae

Author

Huber

Common Names

• Pilchi Huasca (Quichua)
• Yahua-piri-piri (Brazil)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Mato Grosso
• Rondonia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• riverside
• disturbed areas

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Jul
• Sep
• Dec

Liana to 9m or small tree with glabrescent branchlets. Coriaceous rough leaves to 200mm x 100mm. Racemes to 450mm long with bractlets, fragrant blue flowers, glabrous white or pale blue calyx, 10-ribbed calyx tube to 4mm long with lobes to 14mm x 4mm, corolla tube 9mm x 7mm with lobes to 7.5mm long. Fruit with persistent calyx to 5.5mm x 8mm with lobes to 25mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew