Gymnopetalum orientale
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Description
Climber to 5 m long, minutely grey or brown hairy, subglabrescent;
Leaves:
Inflorescences:
Fruit ellipsoid-fusiform, 5-6 by 3-4 cm, shortly beaked, harshly fine-hairy, glabrescent, sometimes with scattered wartlets;
Seeds numerous, long pear-shaped, rather acute at one end, 7-8 by 3.5 by 2.5-3 mm, faces shallowly verrucose-rugose, not margined.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. present (Bali present); Maluku (Maluku present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Babar Is present, Flores present, Lombok present, Seram present
Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok, Flores), Moluccas (Seram, Babar Is.).
Morphology
Gymnopetalum orientale resembles G. chinense, but the latter is less robust in all parts. The disc in the male flowers, consisting of carnose elongate bodies adnate to the receptacle-tube is similar to those in most of Trichosanthes. Gymnopetalum orientale is reminiscent of Trichosanthes quinquangulata because of its leaf size and shape, its lobed sepals and sometimes ± fringed petals.