Saritaea magnifica
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Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Singapore), Banka present, Bogor Botanic Gardens cultivated, SE. Asia cultivated, Southern America: Colombia (Colombia present); Ecuador (Ecuador present)
Colombia and Ecuador, widely cultivated through the tropics and common in SE. Asia and Malesia, never setting fruit. Obviously first introduced in Singapore; the Bogor Botanic Gardens received it from Banka in 1911.
Citation
DUGAND 1974 – In: Thai For. Bull. Bot.: 46
BACK. & BAKH.F. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 536
GUTTENBERG 1934 – In: Ann. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 195
GENTRY 1973: p. 920. – In: Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard.: f. 31
STEEN. 1928 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 191
CHATTERJEE 1948 – In: Bull. Bot. Soc. Beng.: 78
SANTISUK 1973 – In: Kew Bull.: 184
HERKLOTS 1976: Fl. Trop. Climb: 71: f. 95