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Strychnos jobertiana

Botanic Family

Loganiaceae

Author

Baillon

Common Names

• Ir-rro-chee (Kofán)
• U-su-se-é-pa (Kofán)
• Ee-ru-chee-sé-he-pa (Kofán)
• Kitsi-pa-cho-sé-he-pa (Kofán)
• Fee-see-pá-chu (Kofán)
• Paigsi Uweke (Peru)

Geographical Habitats

• Acre
• Amazonas
• Amapá - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Peru
• Amazonas - Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riverside
• seasonally inundated areas
• coastal
• primary forest

Flowering Times

• Mar
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Jul

Liana or tree to 30m long with greyish-white bark. Glabrous coriaceous leaves to 250mm x 150mm, densely white-dotted beenath. Axillary glabrescent cymes, white to cream-yellow to gtreenish flowers, calyx lobes 1mm long, glabrous corolla tube 10mm long with pilose lobes.

Bark occasionally used as secondary ingredient in curare, medicinal.

Further References

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