Tournefortia luzonica

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Tournefortia luzonica

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Description

Creeper or liana. Leaves arranged strictly opposite; petiole 8-15 mm, blade ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 4-12 by 1.2-5.5 cm, entire, base horizontally truncate to subcordate, apex acute to acuminate, densely covered by subappressed, irregularly directed hairs on both sides or hairs sparse. Inflorescencess terminal and axillary, composed of short, very dense cymes, branches of last order dichotomous, divaricate, not elongated in fruit. Flowers sessile, arranged in 2 ranks. Fruit ovoid-globose, 2.5 mm long, 2 mm in diam. when dry, wall fleshy.

Distribution

Biak I. present, Luzon present

Malesia: Philippines (Luzon), New Guinea (Biak I.).

Notes

Johnston (1935) gives much smaller measurements (in brackets in the above description) for calyx and corolla than were found in material from Leiden. The identity, however, is clear from the strictly opposite leaves.