Pyrenacantha repanda
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Description
Woody vine, up to 8 m.
Branchlets slender, minutely verrucose, the growing parts short-pubescent.
Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, apex slenderly acuminate, bluntish, base narrowed, very base cordate, subcoriaceous, glabrous and smooth above (though very finely papillate under the lens), set with scattered appressed strigose hairs whose rounded bases are partly pellucid against strong light) and scabrid to the touch beneath, 6-14 by 1.5-4(-5) cm, margin ± repand with a short glandular tooth at the excurrent end of each lateral nerve, midrib and nerves prominent on both faces, the latter in 5-6 curved-ascendent and anastomosing pairs, reticulation rather lax and slightly raised on both sides;
Petals 4, ovate-oblong, pubescent outside, 1.5-2 mm.
Seed 1;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), Bulacan present, Ilocos Norte present, Luzon present, Mindanao present, Samar present, Sorsogon present, Tayabas present
Malesia: Philippines (Luzon: Ilocos Norte, Bulacan, Tayabas, Sorsogon; Samar, Mindanao).