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Tontelea laxiflora

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

(Bentham) A.C. Smith

Common Names

• Murcuhuasca (Peru)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Pará
• Rondonia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riverside forests
• secondary inundated forest
• primary forest
• floodplain forest

Flowering Times

• Mar
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Jul
• Oct

Liana with creamy-green scented flowers in axillary cymes, petals 2mm long, branches have disagreeable smell, orange fruit, a berry. Liana or treelet becoming scandent with lenticellate branchlets. Leaves to 150mm x 53mm. Axillary inflorescence with bracts & bracteoles to 1mm long, white or pale greenish-yellow flowers to 4mm diameter, sepals 0.5mm x 0.8mm, petals 2.3mm x 1.5mm puberulent without

Further References

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