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Strychnos schunkei

Botanic Family

Loganiaceae

Author

Krukoff & Barneby

Common Names

• Sacha Naranjilla (Peru)

Geographical Habitats

• Brazil
• Bolivia
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• forests
• thickets
• seasonally inundated forest
• disturbed forest
• secondary forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

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

Liana, tree or shrub with tendrils & occasional paired spines, leaves to 120mm x 40mm. Terminal or axillary cymes, white flowers, glabrous calyx to 1mm long with lobes to 0.7mm long, corolla to 2.6mm long, glabrous outside with tube 1.2mm long & lobes 1.4mm long. Yellow to orange fruit to 24mm x 24mm

Further References

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