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Strychnos mitscherlichii

Botanic Family

Loganiaceae

Author

M.R. Schomburgk

Common Names

• Pux-se-o (Siona)
• Que-he-ae-o (Siona)
• Ya-yu-ae-o (Siona)
• Devildoer (Creole)
• Big Devildoer (Creole)
• Kwabanaro (Arawak)
• Aritya Wokuru (Carib)

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Alagoas
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Pará
• Pernambuco
• Piaui
• Rio Grande
• Rondonia
• Sergipe - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riverside
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Sep-Oct (Guyana)

Fruiting Times

• Aug & Oct-Jan (Guyana)

Liana or tree with simple curved-hooklike tendrils opposite leaves but no spines, branchlets sparsely puberulent. Coriaceous leaves to 220mm x 105mm, glabrous above & puberulent beneath. Axillary or terminal panicles or cymes to 40mm long with bracts, of scented cream or yellow flowers to 6mm long, 5 yellow calyx lobes to 1.3mm x 1mm, cream corolla with white woolly fimbriae at throat, tube to 8mm long, 5 lobes to 3mm long. Tuberculate fruit speckled brown or orange lenticellate berry to 45mm diameter.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• HUBM
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Academia ResearchGate