Amylotheca dictyophleba

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Amylotheca dictyophleba

Description

Glabrous. Leaves opposite; lamina narrowly to broadly ovate or elliptic, 5-14 by 1.5- 12 cm, shortly cuneate to truncate at the base to an obscure winged petiole 2-8 mm long, obtuse or rounded or rarely acute at the apex, usually lustrous above, dull below; venation pinnate with the midrib, the main laterals and reticulate veins usually distinct on both sides. Inflorescencess at the nodes, a raceme of 1-6 decussate, often subumbel- late pairs of triads or single flowers; triads (when present) with the central flowers sessile and the lateral flowers pedicellate or sometimes sessile; axis 3-12(-28) mm long; peduncles of the triads or single flowers 3-7(-10) mm long; pedicels of the lateral flowers (when present) 2-4 mm long.

Distribution

New Caledonia present, New Hebrides present, eastern Australia present, southern New Guinea present
Eastern Australia, New Caledonia, New Hebrides; Malesia: southern New Guinea.

Notes

For circumscription as a species see .

Citation

Barlow 1974 – In: Austral. J. Bot.: 547
Danser 1936 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg: 242
Barlow 1981 – In: Handb. Fl. Papua New Guinea: 227