Lipocarpha chinensis
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Description
Annual or perennial.
Leaves usually much shorter than the stems, rather rigid, flat or involute, gradually attenuate, obtusish, practically smooth (only minutely scaberulous at the very top), 2-4 mm wide.
Inflorescence 1-1½(-2) cm across.
Stamens 1(-2);
Distribution
Anambas present, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Banka present, Central Java present, Flores present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Lingga Arch present, Luzon present, Madagascar present, Madura present, Mascarene Is present, Mindanao present, Natuna Is present, Rawah Pening near Ambarawa present, Ryu Kyu Is present, S. and SE. Asia present, Southern America: Argentina Northeast (Formosa present), tropical Australia present, tropical and S. Africa present
Tropical and S. Africa, Madagascar, Mascarene Is., S. and SE. Asia (to Formosa and the Ryu Kyu Is.), tropical Australia, in Malesia: throughout Sumatra, Banka, Lingga Arch., Malay Peninsula (common all over the peninsula), Central Java (only once collected in the Rawah Pening near Ambarawa, 1941), Madura, Borneo, Anambas&Natuna Is., Philippines (Luzon, Mindanao), Celebes, Moluccas, and New Guinea, Lesser Sunda Is. (Flores: Veldkamp 7102). In view of the wide distribution in the Malesian region it is very remarkable that there is only a single record for Java.
Citation
WIGHT 1854 – In: Hook., J. Bot. Kew Misc. 6: 28
Benth. 1878 – In: Fl. Austr.: 336
VALCK. SUR. 1912 – In: Nova Guinea: 706
Ridl. 1925 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 163
NEES 1909: Ill. Cyp.: f. 4-7
NEES 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 102
F.-VILL. 1882: NOV. App.: 308
KUNTH 1837 – In: En.: 266
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 294
K.SCH. & LAUT. 1900: Fl. Schutzgeb.: 197
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 331
Clarke 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 109
Koord. 1911 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 183
KUK 1924 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 51
BOECK. 1871 – In: Linnaea: 114
NEES 1938 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 259
CAMUS 1912: p. 143. – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: t. 1, f. A, 1,2
BACK. 1928: Onkr. Suiker: 124: t. 118
OHWI 1942 – In: Bot. Mag. Tokyo: 204
KERN 1968 – In: Back. & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 3: 457
F.-VILL. 1882: Nov. App.: 300
STEUD. 1855 – In: Syn.: 129
WIGHT 1834 – In: Wight, Contr. Bot. Ind.: 92
Clarke 1893 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 667
BACK. 1949 – In: Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.): fam. 246, p. 28
S. T. BLAKE 1947 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 229
cf. KERN 1956 – In: Reinw.: 96
Merr. 1921: En. Born.: 53
TH. & HEL. 1943 – In: Mem. Coll. Sc. Kyoto Imp. Un. B: 166
NEES 1922: Atlas: f. 191
Ridl. 1907 – In: Mat. Fl. Mal. Pen. (Monoc.): 81
DANDY 1932 – In: J. Bot.: 331