Chilocarpus suaveolens
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Description
Large woody climber.
Branchlets sparsely and minutely puberulent at least when young, very rarely glabrous.
Leaves:
Inflorescence axillary, 1.3-4 cm long, much shorter than the subtending leaf;
Stamens inserted at 1.5-2.4 mm from corolla base which is 0.3-0.5 of tube length;
Ovary 0.9-1.2 mm long;
Fruit dull orange, ovoid, 4.5-9 by 2.4-3.7 cm.
Seeds 7-10 by 5-7.2 by 4.5-5.7 mm.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Sumatera (Sumatera present)
Malesia: Sumatra, Borneo, Java.
Taxonomy
The material of this species cited by Leeuwenberg (2002) for New Guinea is Melodinus acutiflorus and that for Sulawesi Chilocarpus denudatus.
Citation
Markgr. 1971 – In: Blumea: 164
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 224
Miq. 1857 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 391
Blume 1850 – In: Mus. Bot.: 151
Bakh.f. 1950 – In: Blumea: 385
Miq. 1857 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 392
Hochr. 1934 – In: Candollea: 176
Miq. 1857 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 392
Blume 1826: Bijdr.: 1025
Leeuwenb. 2002 – In: Syst. Geogr. Pl.: 151