Phytocrene hirsuta
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Description
Climber;
Branchlets slender, set with longish rufous sub-setose and ± spreading hairs, older parts also laxly with very short pale retrorse prickles.
Leaves ovate, or ovate- or elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate, the midrib characteristically protruding up to 8 mm beyond the leaf margin as a hirsute breakable thread in young leaves, base rounded to slightly cordate, firmly chartaceous, finally glabrous above except the nerves, remaining hirsute or tomentose by shorter and longer rufous to ferrugineous hairs and soft to the touch beneath, entire or shallowly sinuate-dented, or obscurely repand especially in the lower half, 12-17 by 6-9 cm, midrib and nerves very slightly immersed or flat above, prominent beneath, nerves 2 pairs palmately from the base of the lamina (outer pair short, inner one rather straight ascending to ± half the length of the blade), other 3(-4) pairs of nerves from the upper ⅔ of the midrib generally more curved, reticulation dense and finely raised above, coarser and more prominent beneath;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Buru present, Buton I present
Malesia: Celebes (incl. Buton I.), Moluccas (Buru).
Citation
HALL.f. 1910 – In: Med. Rijksherb.: 14
Koord. 1898: Minah.: 629
Bl. 1849 – In: Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.: 42
BAILL. 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 12
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 797
Bl. 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.: 247
BECC. 1877 – In: Malesia: 127
SLEUM. 1969 – In: Blumea: 238
WALP. 1851 – In: Ann.: 22