Tinospora merrilliana

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Tinospora merrilliana

Description

Slender woody climber. Leaves:

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Philippines (Philippines present), Catanduanes present, Luzon present, Minahassa present, Mindanao present, NE. Celebes present, Palawan present, Panay present
Malesia: Borneo, Philippines (Palawan, Luzon, Catanduanes, Panay, Mindanao) and NE. Celebes (Minahassa).

Notes

This species varies considerably in leafshape. Most specimens from Mt Kinabalu have small ovate leaves which are truncate or only moderately cordate at the base. From central and eastern Borneo the leaves may be large and deeply cordate. Some specimens from the Philippines and Celebes are hastate with acute basal lobes, as exemplified by the synonym T. hastata ELMER.

Citation

Diels 1911 – In: Elmer, Leafl. Philip. Bot. 4: 1164
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 146
Merr. 1921: En. Born.: 249
YAMAMOTO 1944 – In: J. Soc. Trop. Agric.: 217
Diels 1911 – In: Elmer, Leafl. Philip. Bot. 4: 1164
FORMAN 1981: p. 389. – In: Kew Bull.: f. 1H-K.
YAMAMOTO 1944 – In: J. Soc. Trop. Agric.: 96
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 146
YAMAMOTO 1944 – In: Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Taiwan: 307
Merr. 1921: En. Born.: 249