Alyxia spicata
Content
Description
Climber, more rarely an erect shrub.
Bark brown or grey.
Branchlets weakly or strongly angled, sparsely lenticellate or not, glabrous or sparsely and minutely puberulent.
Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4;
Inflorescence axillary, with several clear internodes and unbranched side branches (but see note), delicate or robust, densely puberulent, especially further up the inflorescence, 1.2-3.2 cm long;
Sepals not fleshy, ovate or narrowly ovate, fused for up to half length at base, 1-2.2 by 0.6-1.2 mm, 1.4-3 times as long as wide, apex obtuse or acute, slightly reflexed, ciliate, sparsely or densely puberulent.
Stamens inserted at 1.3-2.1 mm from corolla base which is 0.52-0.7 of tube length;
Ovaries 0.4-0.7 mm high, densely pubescent all over or pubescent only on top;
Fruit yellow, black or yellow-orange;
Seeds ovoid, 8.1-9 by 6-7.2 by 5.4-6.7 mm.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. present; New Guinea present, Australasia
Australia; in Malesia: Lesser Sunda Islands, New Guinea.
Citation
P.I. Forst. 1992 – In: Austral. Syst. Bot. p 569
D.J. Middleton 2000 – In: Blumea. p 123
F.M. Bailey 1890: Cat. Pl. Queensl. p 29
Markgr. 1977 – In: Blumea. p 401
A.DC. 1844 – In: Prodr. p 346
Spreng. 1824 – In: Syst. Veg. p 835
Markgr. 1927 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. p 185
D.J. Middleton 2002 – In: Blumea. p 53
G. Don 1837: Gen. Hist. p 96
Benth. 1869 – In: Fl. Australiensis. p 308
R.Br. 1900 – In: Queensl. Fl. p 980
Engl. 1886 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. p 470
Roem. & Schult. 1819 – In: Syst. Veg. p 439
J.R. Wheeler 1992: Fl. Kimberley. p 702
F.M. Bailey 1883: Syn. Queensl. Fl. p 306
A.DC. 1844 – In: Prodr. p 346
Domin 1928 – In: Biblioth. Bot. p 524
R.Br. 1996 – In: Fl. Australia. p 131
Markgr. 1977 – In: Blumea. p 391
G. Don 1837: Gen. Hist. p 96
F. Muell. 1868 – In: Fragm. p 117
Roem. & Schult. 1819 – In: Syst. Veg. p 439
Spreng. 1824 – In: Syst. Veg. p 835