Neoalsomitra

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Neoalsomitra

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.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, from NE India and South China to Australia and into the Pacific present
A genus of 11 species, distributed from NE India and South China to Australia and into the Pacific, 1 species, N. clavigera, covering the whole area of the genus; 6 species in Malesia.

Citation

Cogn. 1881 – In: A.DC. & C.DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 928
Hook.f. 1867 – In: Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. 1: 840
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2003 – In: Blumea: 100
Hutch. 2008 – In: Fl. Thailand: 484
auct. non (Blume) Spach: M.Roem. 1916 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 66: 11