Phytocrene anomala

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Phytocrene anomala

Description

Woody vine. Branchlets (slender, up to 5 mm ø, their distal part often curved and similar to a tendril), petioles, peduncles and leaves (mainly on the nerves of the undersurface) hirsute by short greyish and longer (1-2 mm) rufous and more spreading hairs, ultimately glabrescent. Leaves oblong to broadly oblong, or lanceolate, apex short-acuminate, subacute, base slightly cordate, char-taceous, olivaceous, glabrous or almost so except the hirsute midrib above, the tomentum on the undersurface rather soft to the touch, denticulate by protruding veins in young, entire in mature leaves, 10-22(-30) by (2.5-)3-10 cm, nerves 6-8(-10) pairs, two of them ± basal, short and spreading, the other ones curved-ascending, raised beneath only as is the coarse net of veins and veinlets;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present, Berau present, Sandakan area present, Upper Baram R present
Malesia: Borneo (Upper Baram R. and Sandakan area, Berau).

Citation

SLEUM. 1969 – In: Blumea: 235