Tecomanthe dendrophila
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Description
A tall liana, up to 20(-30) m.
Leaves 1-2-jugate;
Capsule almost cylindric, stiped and beaked, 17-22(-30) by 3-3¾ by 3 cm, with hard, almost woody, boat-shaped valves.
Seeds including the thin wing 2½-3½ by 1¼- 1½ icm.
Distribution
Ambon present, Arawa Plantation, Kieta Sub-distr., Bougainville present, Aru Is present, Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present, Biak present, Bougainville present, Ceram present, Jappen present, Misool present, New Britain present, Solomons present, Woodlark I present
Malesia: Moluccas (Ambon, Ceram, Aru Is.), New Guinea (throughout, and incl. Misool, Jappen, Biak, Woodlark I.&New Britain), and Solomons (Bougainville), 120 collections.
MILLAR & VANDENBERG collected this species (NGF 48505) at Arawa Plantation, Kieta Sub-distr., Bougainville, cultivated in a garden 'from a native vine'. I feel not certain that it is native in Bougainville; it might have been introduced from Papua.
MILLAR & VANDENBERG collected this species (NGF 48505) at Arawa Plantation, Kieta Sub-distr., Bougainville, cultivated in a garden 'from a native vine'. I feel not certain that it is native in Bougainville; it might have been introduced from Papua.
Notes
Through the great increase in collections it has appeared impossible to maintain several formerly described species. The characters of the leaves, calyx and corolla show transient, not correlated variation. Though the number of herbarium collections in which 1- and 2-jugate leaves occur together is restricted, they do occur on one plant in cultivation and in the forest according to collectors. The calyx shows a great variation in size and degree of incision. Puberulous hairiness may occur on the rachis, pedicels, the calyx, the midrib and nerves beneath, the apical part of the corolla-lobes, and on the leaf-rachis. Aberrations are sometimes found in individual specimens: a multi-lobed, wide calyx in BW 11242; a very thin, tortuous, 20 cm long rachis of a lax raceme in NGF 11866 and BW 13352; once a leaf with 6 and 7 leaflets; once long unbranched roots produced from a node of the old wood (JANOWSKI 427); an axillary raceme (BRASS 28745).
Seemingly open flowers measure sometimes only 5 cm, but I assume this to be caused in drying of immature flowers and tardy growth.
Seemingly open flowers measure sometimes only 5 cm, but I assume this to be caused in drying of immature flowers and tardy growth.
Citation
STEEN. 1927 – In: Nova Guinea: 297
STEEN. 1928 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 206
S. MOORE 1927: Thesis: 897: f. 5b
K.SCH. 1928 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 206
STEEN. 1927: Thesis: 890
STEEN. 1928 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 211
SYKES 1966: p. 43. – In: Stud. Cult. Pl. N.Z.: f. 18
HERKLOTS 1976: Fl.Trop. Climb: 71: f. 96, col. pl. 7
K.SCH. 1894 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam. 4: 230
Bl. 1849 – In: Mus. Bot.: 25
F.v.M. 1890 – In: Descr. Not.: 64
K.SCH. 1927: Thesis: 880
Diels 1922 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 496
HUNT 1975 – In: Bot. Mag.: t. 693
S. MOORE 1927: Thesis: 888
S. MOORE 1928 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 216
RECH. 1913 – In: Denk-schr. K. Ak. Wiss. M.-N. Kl. Wien: 603
Miq. 1858 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 757
Bl. 1864 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.: 197
WARB. 1891 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 418
STEEN. 1928 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 205
Miq. 1858 – In: Fl.Ind. Bat.: 757
STEEN. 1928 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 215
LAUT. 1928 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 292
STEEN. 1927: Thesis: 876: f. 5a
STEEN. 1927 – In: Nova Guinea: 299
STEEN. 1927 – In: Nova Guinea: 298
S. MOORE 1928 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 210
STEEN. 1927: Thesis: 896
Bl. 1889: Fl.Kais. Wilh. Land: 123
STEEN. 1927: Thesis: 879
LOTHIAN 1958 – In: J. R. Hort. Soc.: 295
Bl. 1849 – In: Mus. Bot.: 26
K.SCH. 1887 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 218
HERKLOTS 1976: Fl. Trop. Climb: 73: f. 97