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Strychnos ignatii

Botanic Family

Loganiaceae

Author

P.J. Bergius

Common Names

• Lu song guo (Pinyin)
• (Saint) Ignatius Bean
• Ipoh Akar (Singapore)
• Upas tieute (Java)
• Tjettek (Java)
• B'Lay Hitam (Sakai)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Yunnan - China
• Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Johore - Malacca
• Penang
• Perak - Malaysia
• SE. Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• scrubland
• riverside
• jungle
• forest
• lowland & hill forest
• coastal forest

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jun (China)
• Jan-Sep (Malesia)

Fruiting Times

• All Year (Malesia)

Very tall evergreen twining liana or glabrous hook climbing shrub, occasionally an erect shrub or treelet, with black bark, simple tendrils. Glabrous coriaceous leaves to 220m x 120mm. Axillary thyrses, corymbs or panicles to 70mm x 30mm of fragrant flowers, white or yellowish to 17mm long, calyx to 15mm, sepals tomentose outside, glabrous within, corolla to 17mm long, tube to 12mm long puberulus outside glabrous inside, woody glabrous orange berries to 120mm diameter

Poisonous seeds

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• net
• FOC
• Bodkin
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• FS
• Botanicus
• FOMP
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS