Adenia crassa
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Description
Climber to 10 m.
Leaves herbaceous, entire or shallowly toothed in the lower half, ovate-elliptic to oblong, top longly acute or faintly acuminate up to 3(-5) cm, base cordate, 3-15 by 1½-9½ cm, 3-5-plinerved and 1-3 pairs of lesser nerves from the midrib;
Inflorescences peduncled for 1½-6 cm, in ♂ up to 30-flowered, in ♀ 2-5-flowered;
Fruit 1, subglobose, excluding the 10-15 mm long gynophore 5-6 by 4½-5 cm;
Seeds 30-40, suborbicular, c. 7½ by 7½-8 by 2½-3 mm, pitted;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), Basilan I present, Sulu Is present, W. Mindanao present, Zamboanga Prov present
Malesia: Philippines (Sulu Is., Basilan I., W. Mindanao: Zamboanga Prov.). .