Muellerargia

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Muellerargia

Description

Small herbaceous climber, annual, leafy stem c. 2 mm diam., green-brown on drying; Leaves simple, unlobed or lobed, palmiveined. Flowers 4-5 mm diam.; Fruit solitary, squirting the seeds; Seeds numerous, compressed, ± oblique or curved, not or hardly ornamented, margin faint with entire, square edge (in Madagascar rounded).

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Madagascar present
A genus of 2 species, of which 1 in Madagascar; in Malesia: 1 species.

Citation

I.Telford 1982 – In: Fl. Australia: 188
Backer 1964 – In: Backer & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 1: 298