Phytocrene malacothrix

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Phytocrene malacothrix

Placement status: name or taxon excluded (unspecific)

Description

“Scandent. Branchlets soft-olivaceous-tomentose in the younger parts, glabrescent below. Leaves ovate, apex subabruptly acuminate for 1 cm, tip obtuse, base rounded, thin-chartaceous, glabrous above, softly brownish-tomentose all over beneath especially on midrib and nerves, 16-18 by 8-10 cm, midrib raised on both faces, nerves curved-ascendent, ± distinctly impressed as are the veins above (the lamina bullate in dry specimens), much raised beneath, reticulation rather dense, slightly prominent beneath only;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Boana present, Morobe Distr present
Malesia: New Guinea (Morobe Distr.: Boana), at 1030 m, once found.

Notes

Imperfectly known species, said to be related to P. interrupta SLEUM. in the original diagnosis, from which the description given above was made; type material lost.

Citation

SLEUM. 1969 – In: Blumea: 237