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Strychnos toxifera

Botanic Family

Loganiaceae

Author

R.H. Schomburgk ex Bentham

Common Names

• Urari (Brazil)

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• Panama
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Pará
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Peru
• Amazonas - Venezuela
• Suriname
• French Guiana

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• forest
• savanna
• secondary forest edge
• disturbed forest
• montane forest
• lakeside.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Sep
• Oct
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jun
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

High-climbing liana or shrub with red-brown pubescence, tendrils. Hirsute leaves to 200mm x 80mm. Inflorescence a terminal cyme with bracts, hairy white axillary scented flowers to 18mm long, calyx lobes to 6mm long hirsute outside, corolla tube to 15mm long hirsute outside & pilose within, corolla lobes pilose outside & densely lanate within. Blue-green glabrous berries to 70mm diameter.

Further References

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