Siparuna aspera
Tree.
The fruit of S. aspera have an astringent odor.
For original publication details of Siparuna aspera see: Prodr. 16(2): 645 1868.
Siparuna aspera is found in Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
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Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies, Rio Perdido, Baeza Granaja Integral, Macucoloma).
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= 101 herbivore associations as of 2012.
Crambidae: Unknown species
Geometridae: Cimicodes pallicostata (Guenee); N=1, Eois nov. sp.; N=19.
Erebidae: Phaegoptera decrepidoides (Rothschild); N=1.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
It has been reported that the fruit of S. aspera is used culinarily in Ecuador. The common name for S. aspera is "hoja hedionda".
A number of synonyms for the accepted name Siparuna aspera (Ruiz & Pav.) A.DC., have been acknowledged by The Plant List.