Sarcostigma paniculata
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Description
Climbing to 30 m, stem up to 10 cm ø, crooked, branched toward top and forming hanging masses;
Leaves scattered along the slender branchlets, oblong or ovate- to elliptic-oblong, rarely lanceolate, apex broadly attenuate, bluntly subacuminate or obtuse, base broadly]cuneate to rounded, thin-coriaceous, paler (greyish) green beneath, glabrous, shining on both faces, (8-)12-20 by (2.5-)4-9 cm, midrib slightly raised above, prominent and longitudinally striate beneath, nerves 4-6 pairs, steeply curved-ascending, rather obscurely looping, raised beneath, reticulation dense, finely tessellate on both sides;
Seed 1, white-coated.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Cochinchina present, Flores present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Leyte present, Mindanao present, Paku, 500 m present, Perak present, Riouw present, Samar present
Cochinchina; in Malesia: Sumatra (Riouw), Malay Peninsula (Perak), Borneo, Philippines (Leyte, Samar, Mindanao), Lesser Sunda Is. (Flores; Paku, 500 m, Schmutz 4818a). .