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Strychnos rondeletioides

Botanic Family

Loganiaceae

Author

Spruce ex Bentham

Common Names

• Jadadakaikapihai (Paumari)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Peru
• Suriname
• Amazonas
• Bolivar - Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Streamside forest
• lakeside
• floodplain forest
• riverside.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Dec

Large high-climbing tomentose liana or treelet to 50m with coriaceous glabrescent leaves to 160mm x 100mm. Terminal & axillary panicles of sweetly-scented white flowers to 8mm long with 4mm lobes, puberulent calyx lobes 2mm long. Tendrils, tuberculate blue-black, orange-red or yellow edible fruit 30mm x 20mm

Bark contains alkaloid

Further References

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