Mukia javanica

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Mukia javanica

Description

Climber or creeper to 3 m long, stem scabrous hairy. Leaves: Fruits 1-3, fascicled, ellipsoid, 1-1.5 cm long, juicy, with filmy pericarp showing the seeds when dry, glabrous; Seeds 8-18, (pale brown or) whitish, obovate, strongly compressed, c. 5 by 3.5-4 by 1-1.5 mm, faces flat, ± depressed, smooth or irregularly low-warted, with a broad 2-grooved margin.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present; New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Northern India present, east to China present
Northern India, east to China; in Malesia: Borneo, Java, Philippines; not known from Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Islands, and New Guinea.

Citation

Cogn. 1916 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 66: 129
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2006 – In: Thai Forest Bull.: 40
Backer 1964 – In: Backer & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 1: 298
Keraudren 1975: p. 58. – In: Aubrév. & J.-F.Leroy, Fl. Camb., Laos, Viêt-Nam 15: f. 10: 6-8
C.Jeffrey 2008 – In: Fl. Thailand: 474