Neoachmandra
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Description
Small climbers, usually annual, leafy stem 0.5-2 mm diam., plant green on drying;
Leaves simple (seemingly 5-foliolate in N. pentaphylla, New Caledonia), palmiveined.
Flowers 5(-10) mm diam., petals usually valvate in bud, (creamy-)white, free.
Fruit 1 (or 2), usually with long fruiting pedicel, globose, ellipsoid, narrowly ellipsoid or fusiform, 0.5-7 cm long, apex beaked or not, glabrous, (pink-)white or red, juicy or pulpy;
Seeds few or numerous, pale, compressed (elsewhere also globose), ovate-elliptic, faces not or but little convex, not sculptured, margin absent or obscure, with entire rounded edge, base of seed without or with a short or long wing.
Distribution
Africa present, Asia-Tropical, Madagascar present, SE Asia present, from India, China, Japan south-east to Australia and the Pacific present, tropics of the Old World present
A genus of c. 30 species distributed in the tropics of the Old World: Africa, Madagascar, and in SE Asiafrom India, China, Japan south-east to Australia and the Pacific; in Malesia: 12 species.