Quechua language: Chacruna; Chacrona; Chaqruy.
Clades:
Rubiaceae.
Ecology: mites, symbiotic on the plant leaf, taking shelter, eating fungi and herbivorous invertebrates.
Content: alkaloids, 0.3% dimethyltryptamine = DMT; beta-carbolines; N-methyltryptamine, NMT.
Use: in ayahuasca, hallucinogenic, entheogenic, connecting to spirit, a plant teacher in the Amazon rainforest.
Source: Endless Consciousness.
BotanyShrub; perennial; 5 m tal, ± 2 m diameter.
Stems: horizontal scars in the middle and lower parts.
Leaves: opposite; 5 to 15 cm long, 2 to 6 cm wide; elliptic; usually sharply angled at base and apex; papery; smooth or infrequently with microscopic plant hairs on the lower surface; veins 5 to 10 pairs; gray or reddish brown on lower surface; petioles 1– to 10 mm long; gray when dry; stipules in pairs, 5 to 25 mm 4 to 12 mm, elliptic, sharply angled at the apex, papery to membranaceous, ciliate, fringed along the upper margins, longitudinally flanged or winged along the middle
Flower: 5 merous.
TaxonomyPsychotria viridis is close to Psychotria carthagenensis of Ecuador.