Trophis scandens

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Trophis scandens

Description

Climber, or shrub with climbing branches, these with long internodes and rudimentary leaves. Leaves distichous; stipules 0.1-0.5 cm long, sparsely whitish appressedly puberulous, caducous or subpersistent. flowers 1-8; stamens c. 2.5 mm long, anthers c. 0.8 mm long; ovary c. 1 mm long, style 1-2 mm long, stigmas 5-15 mm long;

Distribution

Ambon present, Arnhem Land present, Asia-Temperate: Hainan (Hainan present); Taiwan (Taiwan present), Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present (Bali present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Australasia: New South Wales (New South Wales present); Queensland (Queensland present), Banda present, Darwin present, Flores present, Lord How Island present, New Caledonia present, Pacific: Fiji (Fiji present), South China present, Sula Islands present, Sumbawa present, Tanimbar Islands present, Timor present, Vanuatu present, Wetar present
South China (incl. Hainan and Taiwan), Indochina, Thailand, Australia (Darwin, Arnhem Land, Queensland, New South Wales) and Pacific: New Caledonia, Lord How Island, Vanuatu, Fiji; in Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java, Philippines, Celebes, Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Sumbawa, Flores, Timor, Wetar), Moluccas (Sula Islands, Banda, Ambon, Tanimbar Islands), New Guinea.

Citation

Benth. 1873 – In: Fl. Australia: 180
Koord. 1912 – In: Exkurs.-Fl. Java: 86
Müll.Arg. 1866 – In: A.DC., Prodr. 15: 906
Planch. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 37
Merr. 1918: Sp. Blancoan.: 122
Merr. 1906 – In: Philipp. J. Sci.: 43
Gagnep. 1928: p. 696. – In: Fl. Indo-Chine: (sub var. scandens) t. 83: 1-4
Blume 1856 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi: 75
Blanco 1886: Revis. Pl. Vasc. Filip.: 250
Merr. 1905 – In: Publ. Gov. Lab. Philipp.: 78
T.S. Liu 1962 – In: Ill. Lign. Pl. Taiwan: 747
Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 325
Fern.-Vill. 1880: Nov. App.: 198
Blume 1856 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi: 76
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 15
H.L. Li 1963: Woody Fl. Taiwan: 127: f. 38
Blanco 1885: Phan. Cuming. Philipp.: 145
Specht 1958: Bot. Pl. Ecol. – In: Rec. Amer.-Austral. Sci. Exped. Arnhem Land: 218, 330
C.C. Berg 1988 – In: Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch.: 354
S. Vidal 1883: Sin. Gen. Pl. Leños Filip: 39: t. 86 f. B
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 282
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 281
Bureau 1873 – In: A.DC., Prodr. 17: 221
Planch. 1935: Comm. Fl. Cochinch.: 132