Polycarpaea corymbosa
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Description
Usually erect, polymorphous annual.
Leaves linear, 5-30 by 0.5-1 mm, acute, often mucronate, glabrous when fully grown.
Stipules triangular, 3-6 mm, long acuminate.
Inflorescence terminal, dense;
Sepals triangular, long-acuminate, scarious, 1.5-3 mm long, midrib only present as a dark spot at the base.
Petals scarious, ovate-orbicular, truncate, c. 1 mm, brownish.
Stamens with filaments shorter than petals;
Ovary almost spherical, c. 10-ovuled, c. 0.5 mm;
Capsule obovoid.
Seeds reniform, reticulate, yellowish brown.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. present; Maluku (Maluku present); Philippines (Philippines present), Luzon present, Old World tropics present, Papua New Guinea present, Sumba present, Taliabu Island present, continental Southeast Asia to Australia present
Widely distributed in the Old World tropics, throughout continental Southeast Asia to Australia. In Malesia recorded from the Philippines (Luzon), Lesser Sunda Islands (Sumba), Moluccas (Taliabu Island), and Papua New Guinea.
Citation
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Lam. 1992: p. 417. – In: Fl. Thailand: f. 93: 8-15
F.-Vill. 1880: Noviss. App.: 15
Benth. 1863 – In: Fl. Austr.: 166
Merr. 1910 – In: Philipp. J. Sc.: 347
N.C. Majumdar 1993 – In: Fl. India: 549
K. Larsen 1963 – In: Dansk Bot. Ark.: 61
Lam. 1989: Fl. Camb., Laos & Vietnam: 70: f. 9: 8-15
Wadhwa 1996 – In: Fl. Ceylon: 66
Lam. 1943: Fl. Gén. Indo-Chine: 243
Wight 1843: Icon.: 712
Auct. mult. 1972: p. 620. – In: Icon. Cormoph. Sin.: f. 1240
Gagnepain 1909 – In: Fl. Gén. Indo-Chine: 267
Craib 1925 – In: Fl. Siam. Enum.: 190
Lam. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 139
Lu Dequan & M.G. Gilbert 2001 – In: Fl. China: 7
Ke Ping 1996: p. 63. – In: Fl. Reip. Pop. Sin.: f. 13: 4-7
Edgew. & Hook. f. 1874 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 245