Tropical Plant Database - Plant Details

Description: Ervatamia is a 2m tall shrub with divaricating branches. Smooth , hairless leaves are elliptical and pointed the tips, about 20 x 8 cm. Flowers are in bunches known as cymes, which are stalked. The attractive flowers are shaped like trumpet shaped like plumeria and are 2cm long x 1.5 wide. Each petal extends out about 2 cm. Fruits are oval shaped and spotted, about 1 cm long.
(Albert Smith, Fijian plant studies. In Bulletin of the Bishop Museum, No. 141, 128)

The plant is used as medicine in Tonga and is closely related to several other species containing indole alkaloids, commonly used in modern medicine.
(www.cieer.org/geirs/regions/oc/ton/checklist.html)

This plant is foun in Samoa, Tonga and Fiji

(Albert Smith, Fijian plant studies. In Bulletin of the Bishop Museum, No. 141, 128)
Practical Properties

We currently have 2 herbarium specimens for Ervatamia obtusiusculaDONOTUSE in our collection. Click on any specimen below to view the herbarium sheet data.

• 048422 - collected by Art Whistler in 1992
• 045019 - collected by David H. Lorence in 2005