Tree.
Leaves of T. fuliginosa have a rough texture. Flowers and fruit are white.
For original publication details of Tournefortia fuliginosa see: Nov. Gen. Sp. 3: 81 1818.
Tournefortia fuliginosa is found in Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
This information was accessed through Tropicos and Global Biodiversity Information Facility Portal.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected from T. fuliginosa in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Forest).
Commonly found in open areas.
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=56 herbivore associartions as of 2012.
Crambidae: Unknown sp.; N=26.
Erebidae: Bertholdia sp.; N=1.
Noctuidae: Cropia sp.; N=8.
Nymphalidae: Actinote stratonice (Latreille); N=1, Cronomella sp.; N=15.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
Tournefortia rugosa Wild. is a synonym for Tournefortia fuliginosa Kunth. This information was accessed through The Plant List.