Epirixanthes cylindrica

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Epirixanthes cylindrica

Description

Herb, up to 25 cm, (sub)glabrous. Leaves 2-4 mm long, slightly thickened at base, minutely sparsely papillose. Flowers c. 2.5 mm long. Sepals connate ± halfway, unequal, slightly cucul-late, c. 1.5 mm long. Ovary broadly elliptic; Fruit broadly elliptic, c. 1 by 1 mm, at base tightly enclosed by the disk, the whole enclosed by the somewhat shorter sepals.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; New Guinea present; Sumatera (Sumatera present), Burma present, W. Java present
Burma; in Malesia: Sumatra, W. Java, Borneo, New Guinea.

Notes

Closely allied to the next species; see there.

Citation

King 1890 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 132
Merr. 1921: En. Born.: 325
HASSK. 1863 – In: Miq., Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1: 143
WENT 1909 – In: Nova Guinea Bot.: 169
HEND. 1949 – In: Mal. Nat. J.: 27
STEEN. 1934 – In: Trop. Natuur: 52
BACKER 1911: SchoolfL Java: 76
Blume 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 386
RIDLEY 1916 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc.: 19
K.SCH. & LAUT. 1905: Nachtr. Fl. Schutzgeb. Südsee: 285
Merr. 1906 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Suppl. 203
REUTER 1847 – In: DC., Prod. 11: 44
PILGER 1908 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam.: 190
CHODAT 1896 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam. 3: 342
NEES 1825 – In: Flora: 133
BACKER & BAKH.F. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 200
BECC. 1890 – In: Malesia: 325
ZOLL. 1855 – In: Syst. Verz.: 58
Miq. 1858: p. 128. – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: t. 15
PEN-ZIG 1901: p. 142. – In: Ann. Jard. Bot. Btzg: t. 20-23
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 453