Tournefortia macrophylla
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Description
Creeper or liana.
Leaves: petiole 7-20 mm long; blade oblong-lanceolate to ovate lanceolate, 4-15 by 1.7-7 cm, margin entire, base rounded to truncate, apex acuminate, main nerves distinct especially below, upper side with a very few hairs, dense, minute whitish groups of mineralized cells usually present, lower side loosely appressed strigulose with irregularly directed hairs.
Inflorescences dichotomously branched several times, cymes dense when flowering, strongly accrescent and loose in fruit, terminal and axillary.
Flowers numerous in 2 ranks, sessile.
Stamens inserted above middle of tube.
Fruit depressed ovoid-subglobose, ribbed at border of pyrenes, rostrate, 2.5 mm long, 2.8 mm in diam. when dry, wall fleshy.
Distribution
Alor present, Asia-Temperate: Taiwan (Taiwan 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), Flores present, Lombok present, N Queensland present, Timor present, Wetar present
Australia (N Queensland), Taiwan; Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java, Philippines, Celebes, Lesser Sunda Islands (Lombok, Flores, Timor, Alor, Wetar), Moluccas, New Guinea.