Alyxia longiloba

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Alyxia longiloba

Description

Climber. Branchlets strongly angled, sparsely lenticellate, sparsely and minutely puberulent. Leaves in whorls of 5; Inflorescence axillary, a compound pleiochasium with clear internodes, robust, densely puberulent, 2.3-2.8 cm long; Sepals ovate, 1.1-1.4 by 0.8-0.9 mm, 1.2-1.75 times as long as wide, apex acute or acuminate, ciliate, densely puberulent. Stamens inserted at 2.1-2.7 mm from corolla base which is 0.45-0.47 of tube length; Ovaries c. 0.9 mm high, densely pubescent all over; Fruit unknown.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present
Malesia: New Guinea.