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Tontelea attenuata

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

Miers

Common Names

• Curare-maukoriapica (Venenzuela)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Rondonia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Lowland rain forest
• forest
• riverside
• seasonally inundated areas

Flowering Times

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

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• May
• Jul
• Nov
• Dec

Scrambling slender liana or small tree with leaves to 180mm x 65mm, black punctate beneath. Perfumed green, yellow, orange or cream flowers in axillary or terminal cymes to 30mm long with bracts & bractlets less than 1mm long, fimbriate sepals, petals 2.2mm x 1.6mm. Orange-yellow fruit a drupe ripening purple 20mm x 13mm.

Further References

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