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Strychnos parviflora

Botanic Family

Loganiaceae

Author

Spruce ex Bentham

Common Names

• Rompe Gibao (Brazil)

Geographical Habitats

• Amazonas
• Marahão
• Mato Grosso
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riversides
• forests
• inundated forests

Flowering Times

• Oct

Fruiting Times

• Jul
• Oct

Liana or scandent shrub to 40m long with puberulent branches. Coriaceous leaves to 180mm x 90mm, glabrous above & puberulent beneath. Axillary many-flowered puberulent panicles of scented white flowers, calyx lobes 0.5mm long, corolla lobes glabrous outside & lanate inside, spines. Warty orange fruit to 23mm x 20mm

Further References

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