Argyreia discolor

Nomenclature

Accepted name/Authority/Place of publication: 

ArgyreiadiscolorOoststr., Blumea 7 (1952) 175.

Description

Habit: 
Stems twining; branches terete, densely and more or less appressedly pilose with short, fulvous hairs.
Leaves: 
Leaves ovate, 6-8 by 3-5 cm, subcordate at the base, attenuate towards the obtusish apex, subconaceous, upper surface green, glabrous or with some strigillose hairs on the midrib; lower surface purple, sparsely pilose with slightly curved hairs, more densely so on the midrib and the 6-7 nerves on either side; petiole 2-2½ cm, sulcate above pilose like the branches.
Inflorescences: 
Inflorescences axillary: densely umbellately cymose at the apex; peduncle 4-7 cm, strigose-tomentose as are the branches of it, the pedicels and the minute bracts; pedicels 1-3 mm.
Flowers: 
Sepals strigose-tomentose outside, two outer ones broadly ovate-triangular, obtuse, ca 3½ mm long; sepal 3 orbicular to transverse-elliptic, ca 4 mm long, with one glabrous margin; two inner sepals orbicular to transverse-elliptic, ca 4 mm long, with two glabrous margins. Corolla 5-partite, purple, paler tipped; tube ca 6 mm long, glabrous; lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, up to ca 17 mm long; midpetaline bands sericeous, margins glabrous; filaments inserted at the mouth of the tube, with thickened base. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled.
Fruits: 
Fruit unknown.
Author: 
Ooststroom,S.J. van & R.D. Hoogland.
References: 

Ooststroom,S.J. van & R.D. Hoogland. 1953. Convolvulaceae In Flora Malesiana 4:388–512. 

Biogeography, Ecology and Natural History

Distribution: 

Borneo (Sabah).

Ecology: 

At ca 1500 m.

Author: 
Ooststroom,S.J. van & R.D. Hoogland.
References: 

Ooststroom,S.J. van & R.D. Hoogland. 1953. Convolvulaceae In Flora Malesiana 4:388–512. 

Authorship for webpage

Editor: 
Esmond Er
Contributors: 
Classification: 
Thu, 2012-05-31 04:15 -- Esmond
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