Neoachmandra backeri

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Neoachmandra backeri

Description

Annual (or subperennial) 1-2 m long climber, leafy stem 0.5-1 mm diam., sparsely finely woolly pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves: Fruit solitary, narrowly ellipsoid-fusiform, 2.5-4.5 by 0.8-1 cm; Seeds numerous, (narrowly) elliptic, 3-3.5 by 1.5-2 mm, with faint paler margin.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present; Maluku (Maluku present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Kangean Archipelago present
Java (Kangean Archipelago), Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas (see further under the subspecies).