Tournefortia tetrandra
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Description
Creeper or liana.
Leaves: petiole 4-10 mm; blade ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 3-10 by 1-5 cm, margin entire to crenulate, base obliquely truncate, rarely subcordate, apex acute, nerves distinct on both sides, prominent and darker on pale lower surface when dry, short stiff hairs arising from tubercles of mineralized cells and such tubercles without hairs on upper, few stiff, short, appressed hairs mainly along nerves on lower side. Inflorescence branched, bearing cymes as branches of last order, terminal and/or lateral.
Flowers subsessile, numerous in 2 ranks.
Stamens inserted at about the middle of the tube.
Fruit depressed globose, with 2 beaks, 4 mm long and in diam., wall fleshy.
Distribution
Anambas and Natuna Islands present, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Nicobar Islands present
Nicobar Islands, Sri Lanka; Malesia: Anambas and Natuna Islands, Sumatra, Malay Peninsula (according to Johnston 1935), Borneo, Java, Philippines, New Guinea.