Indomelothria

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Indomelothria

Description

Climbers 1-5 m long, (sub)perennial, leafy stem 1-2 mm diam., green on drying; Leaves: Flowers 5(-10) mm diam., sepals minute, linear or subulate, ± patent; Fruit solitary or co-axillary with male raceme, ripenning green, narrowly ellipsoid, fusiform, 5-7 cm long, glabrous, pulpy; Seeds numerous, compressed, ovate-elliptic, faces little convex, not sculptured, but with dense appressed hairs, margin absent, edge entire, not winged.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, from South Myanmar and South Thailand to West Malesia present
A genus of 2 species extending from South Myanmar and South Thailand to West Malesia; in Malesia 2 species.

Citation

W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2008 – In: Fl. Thailand: 458