Neoalsomitra
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Description
Tiny or stout climbers, annual or perennial, with or without tuberous rootstock;
Leaves:
Inflorescences lateral (and terminal), in male mostly many-flowered, paniculate with ultimate branches fine, raceme-like, pedicels persistent;
Flowers small;
Fruits few or several, green, ripening brown, small- or medium-sized cylindrical-clavate capsules, apex truncate, 3-valvate, perianth-scar 0.5-2(-3) mm from orifice.
Seeds alternate in each row (wings imbricate), compressed, faces (finely) tubercled or smooth, margin narrow or broad, sometimes double because of deep circumferential groove (not or hardly so in N. sarcophylla), edge subentire or finely or coarsely dentate, with apically a ± oblique membranous translucent wing.