Gynostemma intermedium

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Gynostemma intermedium

Description

Small climber or creeper, root not known, 1-2 m long; Leaves: Fruit few or up to 20 per infructescence, shiny, ripening green or dark purple, globose, 0.6-1(-1.2) cm diam., with 5 style-remnants and 5 (not opening) valve-sutures, glabrous; Seeds 3 or 4 per berry, pale brown, rounded-triangular, c. 4 by 3.5 by 2 mm, with ± flattish apex, coarsely sparsely warted or irregularly ridged, margin narrow.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Eastern Highlands present, Madang present, Morobe Province present, Papua New Guinea present
New Guinea (Papua New Guinea (Madang, Eastern Highlands, and Morobe Provinces)).

Taxonomy

Gynostemma intermedium occupies the altitudinal montane zone between G. pentaphyllum of the lowlands and G. papuanum of the subalpine zone.