Neoalsomitra sarcophylla
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Description
Climber 3-8 m long, perennial from woody rootstock, glabrous;
Leaves:
Fruit much narrowed to the base, glabrous, 3(-4) cm long, apex truncate, 0.8(-1) cm wide;
Seeds 12-15, subtriangular, 6-7 by 3-4 mm, 2-horned at apex, margined, edge smooth or verrucose, faces finely verrucose, wing suberect, 8-10 by 4 mm.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Cambodia (Cambodia present); Laos (Laos present); Lesser Sunda Is. present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Thailand (Thailand present); Vietnam (Vietnam present), Central, SW, and Kabaena Is present, East Malesia present, Luzon present, Myanmar present, Palawan present, Timor present
Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam; in Malesia: rare and scattered in East Malesia: Philippines (Luzon, Palawan), Sulawesi (Central, SW, and Kabaena Is.), Lesser Sunda Islands (Timor). Sometimes cultivated in botanical gardens.
Taxonomy
1 In Teijsmann 19765 (BR), Timor, the seeds lack the two horns; it is the only known collection with seeds from East Malesia.
2 In the Bogor Botanic Garden a sterile widely creeping vegetative persisting plant, possibly a remnant of old introduction, was still present in 1998.
Citation
Keraudren 1975: p. 9. – In: Aubrév. & J.-F.Leroy, Fl. Cambodge, Laos & Vietnam 15: pl. 1.
M.Roem. 1916 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 66: 13
Cogn. 1881 – In: A.DC. & C.DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 929
Wall. 1831: Pl. Asiat. Rar: 28: t. 133
Craib 1931: Fl. Siam.: 769
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2003: p. 111. – In: Blumea: f. 1b
Hutch. 2008 – In: Fl. Thailand: 489