Mukia rumphiana
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Description
Climber 3-5 m long, roots perennial, leafy stem 2(-3) mm diam., with stiff hairs, ± upward directed.
Leaves:
Fruit solitary, whitish, ripening red, ellipsoid, 2-4 by 1.5-2.5 cm, either densely soft-hairy or sparsely hairy and later on glabrescent;
Seeds numerous, pyriform-ovoid, only little compressed, (4-)5-6 by 3-4 by 2 mm, margin narrow, with 2 grooves;
Distribution
Ambon present, Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Bacan present, Buru present, Sula Islands present, Ternate present, Vogelkop Peninsula present, West Papua present
Sulawesi, Moluccas (Ternate, Bacan, Sula Islands, Buru, Ambon), New Guinea (West Papua (Vogelkop Peninsula)); 2 subspecies.