Shrub that can reach a height of 4m. Leaves are alternate. Fruit are capsules.
This information is based an ongoing project dedicated to the inventory and dissemination of information on lepidopteran larvae, their host plants, and their parasitoids in a Costa Rican tropical wet forest and an Ecuadorian montane cloud forest.
N = 53 herbivore associations as of 2012.
Apatelodidae: Unknown spp.; N=2.
Erebidae: Unknown sp.; N=1.
Crambidae: Syllepte nr. mimalis (Felder & Rogenhofer); N=1, Unknown spp.; N=25.
Geometridae: Ischnopteris festiva (Dognin); N=1, Unknown spp.; N=4.
Noctuidae: Hypena sp.; N=1, Eriopyga sp.; N=1, Unknown spp.; N=5.
Saturniidae: Pseudautomeris yourii (Lemaire); N=1.
Spingiidae: Xylophanes sp.; N=7, Unknown spp.; N=3.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
For original publication details of Psychotria trivialis see: Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 6: 50 1896.
Psychotria trivialis is found in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.
This information was accessed through Discover Life and the Royal Botanical Gardens.
Psychotria trivialis Rusby is an accepted name. This information was accessed through The Plant List.