Palmeria schoddei

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Palmeria schoddei

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Description

Woody liana to 25 m high, with slender branches covered with a rough fulvous indumentum of stellate hairs. Leaves ovate, 3.3-6 by 1.5-2.5 cm, charta-ceous, base rounded, narrowed to an acute apex, midrib slightly channelled above, prominent below, lateral veins conspicuous, upper surface of mature leaves with widely spaced remnants of small stellate hairs, lower surface covered with dense indumentum of small fulvous stellate hairs, with scattered slightly larger stellate hairs along the principal veins; Inflorescence:

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Papua New Guinea present, Southern Highlands present, Western Highlands Province present

Malesia: Papua New Guinea (Southern Highlands and Western Highlands Province).

Notes

Similar to P. montanaA.C. SMITH, a mon-tane species from the Wharton Range, but distin-guished by leaf shape and size (larger and lacking an apiculum); coarser indumentum on the midrib; and by the larger flowers.