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Strychnos peckii

Botanic Family

Loganiaceae

Author

B.L. Robinson

Common Names

• Bastard Sapodilla (Belize)
• Se-hé-pa (Kofán)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Costa Rica
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Pará
• Rondônia
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riverine forest
• forest remnants
• forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep
• Nov
• Dec

Large liana to 60m long climbing with hooks. Puberulent branchlets, coriaceous leaves to 350mm x 170mm, glabrous aboce & puberulent beneath. Axillary puberulent cymes of 9mm sweet-scented white or whitish-yellow flowers, calyx lobes to 1mm long puberulent without, corolla tube to 9mm long pubescent without, pilose within. Warty fruit to 79mm diameter beige to brown

Further References

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