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Tabernaemontana siphilitica

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Linnaeus f.) Leeuwenberg

Common Names

• Grão de Galo (Portuguese)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Goias
• Marahão
• Pará
• Rondonia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• moist forest
• riverside
• forest edge
• marsh
• floodplain
• inundated forest
• disturbed forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Mar

Tree, shrub or climber to 5m with hairy or glabrous branches & cymes. Glabrous ribbed coriaceous leaves white-tomentose beneath & with undulated edges to 300mm x 150mm. Perfumed white or white with purple spots or red flowers 25mm long in lateral cymes or corymbs or terminal fascicles to 50mm long with bracts to 5mm long, of 20-30 flowers, calyx with puberulent segments, lobes to 6mm x 2mm, white corolla puberulent within to 25mm long, with twisted tube 20mm x 3mm & lobes to 14mm x 6mm. Bristly yellowish double follicles to 25mm x 10mm

Further References

• NYBG
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• Kew
• FOPE