Neoachmandra indica
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Description
Subannual slender 0.5-1.5 m long creeper or climber, largely glabrescent, hairs less than 0.5 mm long.
Leaves:
Flowers:
Fruit 1 or 2 per node, ripening whitish, subglobose or (short) ellipsoid, not apiculate, 0.8-1.2 by 0.8-1 cm;
Seeds 15-25 per fruit, ± obovate, 2-4 by 2.5-3 mm, smooth, unmargined, with entire, rounded edge.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia absent); Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera absent), from South India and South China east to West Malesia present
Widespread: from South India and South China east to West Malesia; in Malesia: Borneo, Java, and the Philippines; not known from Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia. In northern India the distinction with N. odorata is not sharp, as is the distinction with N. japonica in southern China.