Amyema acuta

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Amyema acuta

Description

Glabrous except for the young inflorescence and flowers sometimes softly pubescent. Leaves regularly verticillate (mostly quaternate); lamina lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, mostly 5-10 cm long, mostly 1.5-4 cm wide, attenuate to shortly cuneate at the base to a petiole 3-10 mm long, mostly acuminate and acute at the apex, dull or slightly glossy above, dull and distinctly paler below; venation pinnate with the midrib prominent below. Inflorescences at the nodes, pedunculate, mostly 4- (rarely 2- to 6-)rayed umbels of triads with all flowers pedicellate; peduncle 10-40(-60) mm long; rays 3-8 mm long; pedicels 1-2 mm long.

Distribution

Luzon present
Malesia: Philippines (Luzon).

Notes

Closely related to Amyema celebica; for differences see