Limacia

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Limacia

Description

Woody climbers. Leaves with base 3- or 5-nerved. Inflorescences axillary or supra-axillary, cymose or pseudo-paniculate. Seed horseshoe-shaped, narrow, embedded in endosperm.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sabah present, Sarawak present); Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Buton I present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Lower Burma present, Mindanao present, SE. Celebes present, Sumba present, Timor present, Tropical SE. Asia present
tropical SE. Asia (Lower Burma, Thailand, Indochina); in Malesia: Sumatra, Malaya, Borneo (W., Sarawak, Sabah), Java, Lesser Sunda Is. (Sumba, Timor), SE. Celebes ( Buton I.), Philippines ( Mindanao); 3 spp.

Notes

HOOKERf. & THOMSON considered Hypserpa as a synonym of Limacia, but nearly all subsequent authors have retained the two genera as distinct. Limacia differs from Hypserpa in having the sepals in distinct whorls of three, those of the inner whorl being valvate. In Hypserpa the sepals are all imbricate, irregular in number and not arranged in whorls.

Citation

FORMAN 1958 – In: Kew Bull.: 447
MIERS 1871 – In: Contr. Bot.: 108
Diels 1910 – In: Pfl. R.: 213
HOOK.f. & TH. 1855 – In: Fl. Ind.: 187