Urceodiscus scabridula

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Urceodiscus scabridula

Description

Small (extensively scrambling) few meters long climber, leafy stem 1-2 mm diam., plant densely or sparsely hairy, (partly) glabrescent, green-brown on drying. Leaves: Fruit ripening red, blackish brown when dry, subglobose, 1-2 cm diam., ± smooth or minutely pustulate; Seeds 10-20, pale brown, ovoid, 4-4.5 by 3-3.5 by c. 2.5 mm, margin faint.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, P.T. Freeport Indonesia Concession Area present, Valentijn Mountains present, south-western West Papua: near Lake Habbema present
New Guinea (south-western West Papua: near Lake Habbema; Valentijn Mountains; P.T. Freeport Indonesia Concession Area).

Morphology

This species is remarkable by its filaments which are thickened at apex and abruptly in-curved for c. 90°.