Tournefortia muelleri
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Description
Shrub or subshrub, 1-2.5 m high. Branches reddish brown, with dense, white, short, patent hairs.
Leaves: petiole 5-25 mm long; blade ovate-lanceolate, ovate or rarely lanceolate, 2.5-10 by 1-6.5 cm, margin entire, base oblique to horizontally truncate, sometimes slightly decurrent in petiole, apex acute, acuminate or rarely obtuse, nerves impressed above, prominent below, upper side slightly rough from few appressed stiff hairs, lower side densely soft tomentose.
Inflorescence composed of 3-5 more or less distinctly stalked cymes on 2 or 3 dichotomies, not much elongated after flower, terminal or lateral, with numerous sessile flowers in 2 ranks.
Stamens inserted at or above middle of tube.
Fruit depressed-subglobose to subglobose-pear-shaped, 2.5 mm long and wide or 2.7 mm wide when dry, wall fleshy.
Distribution
?Bali present, Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present), Merapi present, Sumba present, northern Australia present
Northern Australia; Malesia: ?Java (Merapi), Philippines, Lesser Sunda Islands (?Bali, Sumba), New Guinea. In the case of Java, only Merapi is mentioned on the label, but no particular island. In the case of Bali, the identification is a little doubtful.