Strychnos icaja Baill.

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Loganiaceae > Strychnos

Characteristics

A stout creeper or climbing shrub. The branches can be 100 m long and 15 cm across. They can climbing into trees. The small branches have single tendrils. The flowers are small and on open groups in the axils of leaves. The fruit are round.
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Flowers minute, borne in slender rather open axillary panicles
A stout liane with branchlets bearing solitary tendrils
Fruit globose
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Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 35.0
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Environment

Rainforest and secondary forest on lateritic sandy clay soils, from sea-level up to 800 metres.
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A tropical plant.
In forest.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

CAUTION: Many Loganiaceae are very poisonous. The fruit are possibly only used as medicine.
Uses animal food food material medicinal poison social use
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use Ordeal (unspecified), Poison(Arrow) (unspecified)
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Cultivation

Plants can grow from seeds or suckers.
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Distribution

Strychnos icaja world distribution map, present in Benin, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:547240-1
WFO ID wfo-0000502978
COL ID 6ZYJP
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Synonyms

Strychnos brachyura Strychnos unguacha Strychnos dewevrei Strychnos dundusanensis Strychnos kipapa Strychnos mildbraedii Strychnos venulosa Strychnos icaja Strychnos inocua subsp. inocua Strychnos unguacha var. pubescens Strychnos pusilliflora