Nomenclature
Accepted name/Authority/Place of publication:
ArgyreiaerinaceaOoststr., Blumea 5 (1943)374.
Description
Habit:
Stems twining, tall; young branches densely set with appressed or subpatent, greyish or fulvous, strigillose hairs, glabrescent.
Leaves:
Leaves ovate to elliptic, sometimes narrower, 7-13 by (2½-) 4½- 11 cm, subcoriaceous; base rounded to truncate or slightly retuse to subcordate, apex obtuse to shortly acuminate, mucronulate; upper surface glabrous or sparsely strigillose on midrib and basal lateral nerves, lower surface strigillose; midrib and 6-7 nerves on either side prominent beneath; minor nervation indistinct; petiole 2½-6 cm, strigillose.
Inflorescences:
Peduncles axillary, 3-11 cm, densely strigillose, umbellately cymose at the apex. Pedicels up to 4 mm. Bracts minute, caducous.
Flowers:
Two outer sepals broadly ovate-triangular, obtuse, ca 4½ mm long, densely strigillose; sepal 3 orbicular, 5-6 mm long, strigillose, one glabrous margin excepted; two inner sepals orbicular to transverse-elliptic, rounded at the apex, ca 5 mm long, strigillose, the broad lateral margins excepted. Corolla deeply 5-lobed, white with pale purple inside; tube ca 6-7 mm long, glabrous; lobes oblong or ovate-oblong, up to 17 mm long; midpetaline bands sericeo-strigillose, margins glabrous. Filaments with thickened glabrous base. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled.
Fruits:
Fruit ellipsoid, obtuse, up to 12 mm long, red ; seed 1. Fruiting pedicels and branches of cyme reflexed.
References:
Ooststroom,S.J. van & R.D. Hoogland. 1953. Convolvulaceae In Flora Malesiana 4:388–512.
Biogeography, Ecology and Natural History
Distribution:
Borneo (Mt. Kinabalu).
Ecology:
In forests, 850-1500 m.
References:
Ooststroom,S.J. van & R.D. Hoogland. 1953. Convolvulaceae In Flora Malesiana 4:388–512.
Authorship for webpage
Editor:
Esmond Er
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