Alyxia spicata
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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
Benth. 1869 – In: Fl. Australiensis: 308
F.M. Bailey 1890: Cat. Pl. Queensl.: 29
Spreng. 1824 – In: Syst. Veg.: 835
D.J. Middleton 2000 – In: Blumea: 123
F. Muell. 1868 – In: Fragm.: 117
Markgr. 1977 – In: Blumea: 391
F.M. Bailey 1883: Syn. Queensl. Fl.: 306
A.DC. 1844 – In: Prodr.: 346
G. Don 1837: Gen. Hist.: 96
P.I. Forst. 1992 – In: Austral. Syst. Bot.: 569
G. Don 1837: Gen. Hist.: 96
Roem. & Schult. 1819 – In: Syst. Veg.: 439
R.Br. 1996 – In: Fl. Australia: 131
J.R. Wheeler 1992: Fl. Kimberley: 702
Engl. 1886 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 470
Markgr. 1977 – In: Blumea: 401
Domin 1928 – In: Biblioth. Bot.: 524
Markgr. 1927 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 185
R.Br. 1900 – In: Queensl. Fl.: 980
A.DC. 1844 – In: Prodr.: 346
Roem. & Schult. 1819 – In: Syst. Veg.: 439
Spreng. 1824 – In: Syst. Veg.: 835
D.J. Middleton 2002 – In: Blumea: 53