Carissa spinarum

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Carissa spinarum

Description

Shrub or small tree to 5 m tall, or a liana. Branchlets glabrous to puberulent; Leaves: Inflorescence 1.4-3 cm long, terminal and/or axillary; Flowers fragrant. Sepals ovate to narrowly ovate, 1.5-3 by 0.4-1.5 mm, 2.1-3.8 times as long as wide, apex acute to acuminate; Stamens inserted at 0.7-0.8 of corolla tube length from base; Ovary 0.5-1.5 mm long, glabrous or weakly papillose; Fruit ovoid or subglobose, 0.6-2.5 cm by 4-15 mm;

Distribution

Africa: Seychelles (Seychelles present), Arabia present, Aru Islands present, Asia-Tropical: India present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Pakistan (Pakistan present), Australasia, Madagascar present, New Caledonia present, Subsaharan Africa present, continental Southeast Asia present, southern China present
Arabia, Subsaharan Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles, Pakistan, India, Southern China and continental Southeast Asia, Australia, New Caledonia; in Malesia: Moluccas (Aru Islands), New Guinea, possibly also in Peninsular Malaysia.

Citation

Kerr 1939 – In: Craib, Fl. Siam. 2: 427
Markgr. 1927 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 173
Lý 1986 – In: Feddes Repert.: 409
P.T. Li et al. 1995 – In: Fl. China: 146
Miq. 1857 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 399
M. Gangop. & Chakr. 1992 – In: J. Econ. Taxon. Bot.: 35
D.J. Middleton 1999 – In: Fl. Thailand: 11
H. Huber 1983 – In: Abeyw. (ed.), Revis. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 4: 35
Hochr. 1934 – In: Candollea: 176
Tsiang & P.T. Li 1977 – In: Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin.: 10
Leeuwenb. & Van Dilst 2001 – In: Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap.: 35
Kress et al. 2003: Checklist Pl. Myanmar: 147
Miq. 1857 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 399
P.I. Forst. 1990 – In: Blumea: 263
M.F. Watson 1999 – In: Fl. Bhutan: 664
H. Huber 1973 – In: Abeyw. (ed.), Revis. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 1: 9
Kerr 1939 – In: Craib, Fl. Siam. 2: 428