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Strychnos poeppigii

Botanic Family

Loganiaceae

Author

Progel

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Acre
• Amazonas
• Pará - Brazil
• Bolivia
• Colombia
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge
• riverside
• seasonally inundated areas

Flowering Times

• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct

Spiny vine with puberulent branchlets becoming glabrescent. Leaves to 80mm x 40mm, puberulent on nerves. Terminal cymes to 10mm long with bracts to 20mm long, of up to 15 flowers, yellow or green flowers, calyx lobes to 4mm long. 12mm diameter pale orange glabrous fruit

Further References

• Botanicus
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE