Macrosolen cochinchinensis
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Description
Glabrous or rarely the inflorescence shortly pale-tomentose.
Leaves opposite or scattered, the normally developed ones sometimes alternating with cataphylls; lamina narrowly to broadly elliptic or ovate, 4-16 by 2-7 cm, cuneate to truncate at the base to a petiole (1—)3—10 mm long, usually acuminate and acute but sometimes obtuse or shortly rounded at the apex, lustrous above, dull below; venation pinnate with the midrib prominent and the main laterals faintly visible on both sides.
Inflorescences at the nodes, a sometimes subumbellate or spicate raceme of 2-7 opposite pairs of flowers; axis slender, 5-20(-40) mm long, subtended at the base by an involucre of 1 or 2 pairs of small broadly triangular bracts; pedicels slender, 0-6 mm long.
Distribution
Bird's Head Peninsula present, Southern Asia from the Himalayas eastwards to southern China and Indochina present
Southern Asia from the Himalayas eastwards to southern China and Indochina; Malesia: common and widespread from Peninsular Malaysia to New Guinea (Bird's Head Peninsula).