Helixanthera cylindrica
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Description
Glabrous except for young internodes and sometimes the inflorescence and flowers sparsely brown tomentose and soon glabrescent.
Leaves scattered, subopposite or sub- verticillate; lamina elliptic or ovate, 6-15(-20) by (0.8-)1.5-6 cm, attenuate or cuneate at the base to a petiole 8-15 mm long, irregular at the apex but normally somewhat attenuate and acute, dull or slightly glossy above, dull below; venation pinnate with the midrib distinct on both sides, the lateral veins usually distinct above and the many parallel tertiary veins obscure but forming a finely striate pattern above.
Inflorescences at the nodes and rarely terminal, a few- to 25-flowered raceme; axis 50-250 mm long, angular; pedicels (1—)5—18(—27) mm long; bracts simple, rounded, 1-1.5 mm long.
Ovary cylindric, 5-8 mm long; calyx limb spreading, 1-1.5 mm long.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Burma to Vietnam present
Burma to Vietnam; Malesia: Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia,Borneo, Java, Celebes, Bali.