Gymnopetalum chinense
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Description
Climbing or creeping herbs to 6 m long, finely scabrous and sparsely hairy or subglabrous.
Leaves:
Fruit broadly fusiform, 2.5-5 by 1.5-3 cm, beaked mainly by receptacle remnant, glabrescent, sharply 10-ribbed;
Seeds narrowly elliptic, 7-8 by 2-3 by 1.5 mm, faces not ornamented, with marginal groove.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present, Singapore present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Lesser Sunda Islands east to Flores present, north-eastern part of India present, through Indochina present
Widespread; north-eastern part of India, China, through Indochina; in Malesia: Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Java, Philippines, Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Islands east to Flores.
Citation
Merr. 2008 – In: Reinwardtia: 268
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2006 – In: Blumea: 283
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penin.: 846
C.B.Clarke 1879 – In: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 2: 611
Craib 1931 – In: Fl. Siam.: 755
Merr. 2008 – In: Fl. Thailand: 443
Cogn. 1881 – In: A.DC. & C.DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 391
Backer 1964 – In: Backer & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 1: 302