Alsomitra
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Description
Tall climber, perennial;
Leaves:
Fruit solitary, pendent, capsular, unilocular, half-globose, 20-30 cm diam., with flattened 3-valved apex.
Seeds numerous, compressed, smooth, ovate-elliptic, edge entire, with a butterfly-like wing extending laterally to both sides 10-12 cm wide.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Peninsular Malaysia east to New Guinea present, southern Peninsula Thailand present
A genus with 1 species in southern Peninsula Thailand; in Malesia: Peninsular Malaysia east to New Guinea.
Citation
de Wit 1949 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg: 193
Pax 1897 – In: Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4: 392
M.Roem. 1846 – In: Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr.: 117
Pax 1889 – In: Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4: 12
Hutch. 1942 – In: Ann. Bot. (Oxford): 96
Cogn. 1916 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 66: 262