Epirixanthes papuana
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Description
Herb to 25 cm, generally purplish red in most of its parts except the corolla.
Leaves 1.5-2.5 mm long, glabrous.
Flowers 1.5-2.7 mm long, white but purple in bud.
Sepals connate for ½-¾, subequal, glabrous.
Stamens usually 3 and then anthers sessile, rarely 2 and then filaments free to halfway.
Ovary broadly elliptic;
Fruit broadly obovate, 0.7-0.9 by 0.7-0.9 mm, at base tightly enclosed by the fully adnate and very indistinct disk, the whole enclosed by the slightly longer sepals.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present), Ceram present, Enggano I present, Luzon present, N. Sumatra present, San Cristobal present, Solomon Is present, Talaud present, W. Java present
Malesia: N. Sumatra (incl. Enggano I.), W. Java, Borneo, Philippines (Luzon), Moluccas (Talaud, Ceram), New Guinea. Also in the Solomon Is. (San Cristobal).