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Strychnos minor

Botanic Family

Loganiaceae

Author

Dennstedt

Common Names

• Strychnine Bush
• Akar Kayas (Sarawak)

Geographical Habitats

• Queensland - Australia
• Cambodia
• Laos
• Sarawak - Malaysia
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Riverside rainforest

Flowering Times

• Sep (Philippines)

Fruiting Times

Liana or scrambling shrub with glabrous twigs, minute lenticels on branchlets, bifid tendrils. Glabrous leaves to 180mm x 90mm. Tomentose axillary inflorescence to 80mm long, fragrant white flowers, calyx to 2mm with glabrous sepals, white corolla to 7mm with tube at least 2.25mm and woolly lobes. Fruit a berry.

Further References

• Flora Malesiana
• P. Chai
• Envis