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Strychnos guianensis

Botanic Family

Loganiaceae

Author

(Aublet) Martius

Common Names

• Ku-see-ye-hé-pa (Kofán)
• Ya-hi-ae-o (Siona)
• Quamitea (Mayongong)

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Goiás
• Mato Grosso
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Paraná
• Rondonia
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Peru
• Suriname
• Amazonas - Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• seasonally inundated areas
• riversides
• gallery forest
• secondary forest
• thorn scrub

Flowering Times

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

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Oct

Sometime tendril liane or shrub to 40m with reddish hairs. Mucronulate leaves to 90mm x 45mm, glabrescent above & pubescent beneath. Axillary cymes or corymbs of up to 12 flowers, creamy-yellow or greenish-white flowers, calyx lobes to 1.5mm long, corolla to 3mm long. Yellow or red fruit capsule to 13mm diameter

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• FOPE
• HUBM
• Gleason & Moldenke