Proiphys amboinensis
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Description
Leaves:
Flowers with 22-35 mm long perigone-tube, lobes 25-40 mm long.
Fruits 15-30 mm diam.
Distribution
Ambon present, Asia-Tropical: Bismarck Archipelago (Bismarck Archipelago present); Lesser Sunda Is. present (Bali present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Thailand (Thailand present), Australasia, Butung present, Fly River present, Luzon present, Merauke present, Milne Bay present, Minahasa present, Mindoro present, Palawan present, Timor present, continental Asia present
Continental Asia (Thailand), Australia; in Malesia: Philippines (Luzon, Mindoro, Palawan), Celebes (Minahasa, Butung), Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Timor), Moluccas (Ambon), New Guinea (Merauke, Milne Bay, Fly River), Bismarck Archipelago. Also cultivated in gardens.
Citation
Naves 1880: Nov. App.: 255
Salisb. 1812 – In: Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond., ed. 1: 337
Hallier 1913 – In: Nova Guinea: 900
Ridley 1924 – In: Fl. Mai. Penins.: 303
Koord. 1898 – In: Meded. Lands Plantent.: 310
Lindley 1918: Sp. Blanc.: 99
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ned. Indië: 582
Backer & Bakh. f. 1968 – In: Fl. Java: 140
Vidal 1885: Phan. Cuming. Philipp.: 152
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ned. Indie: 582
Peekel 1984: Fl. Bismarck Arch. Natur.: 89
Blanco 1877 – In: Fl. Filip., ed. 3: 317
Merr. 1912: Fl. Manila: 149
Merr. 1925 – In: Enum. Philipp. Row. Pl.: 211
Lindley 1886: Rev. Pl. Vase. Filip.: 276
Henderson 1954: Mai. Wild Fl., Monocot.: 166