Amyema pachypus

Primary tabs

Amyema pachypus

Description

Glabrous except for the inflorescence and flowers rarely sparsely brown tomentose, sometimes glaucous. Leaves opposite; lamina elliptic to ovate or obovate, mostly 2.5-6 cm long, mostly 1.2-3 cm wide, attenuate to shortly cuneate at the base to a petiole 2-8 mm long, obtuse or rounded at the apex, sometimes with a small mucro, slightly lustrous above, dull below; venation pinnate with the midrib and the main laterals faintly visible. Inflorescences at the nodes, pedunculate 3- to 5-rayed umbels of triads with the central flowers sessile; peduncle mostly 8-16 mm long; rays 3.5-7 mm long, usually thicker than the peduncle; pedicels of the lateral flowers 2-4 mm long.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present
Malesia: New Guinea.

Citation

Barlow 1974 – In: Austral. J. Bot. p 582
Barlow 1981 – In: Handb. Fl. Papua New Guinea. p 211
Van Royen 1982 – In: Alpine Fl. New Guinea. p 2262
Barlow 1981 – In: Handb. Fl. Papua New Guinea. p 218
Barlow 1974 – In: Austral. J. Bot. p 570
Barlow 1992 – In: Blumea. p 352