Nomenclature
Accepted name/Authority/Place of publication:
ArgyreiamicranthaOoststr., Blumea 5 (1943)375.
Description
Habit:
Stems twining, up to 12m high; young branches densely pilose with appressed pale greyish, fulvous or ohvaceous, very short and stiff hairs, making the impression of being farinose.
Leaves:
Leaves ovate-oblong to elliptic-oblong, 7-12 by 2½-6 cm, chartaceous; base rounded, apex acute to acute-acuminate, mucronulate, olive-coloured beneath in dry state, much darker above, sparsely strigillose on both sides, glabrescent; midrib and 7-9 nerves on either side prominent beneath; minor nervation indistinct; petiole 2-3½ cm, pilose like the branches.
Inflorescences:
Peduncles axillary, straight, patently erect, terete, 3-12 cm, pilose, umbellately cymose at the apex, with 3-6 branches. Pedicels 2½-5 mm angular to sulcate, pilose. Bracts caducous.
Flowers:
Sepal; equal, ca 3 mm long, shortly pilose outside; two outer ones broadly ovate-triangular to suborbicular, obtuse; sepal 3 broadly triangular to orbicular obtuse, with one glabrous margin; two inner sepals transverse-elliptic, broadly rounded at the apex, the1r lateral margins glabrous. Corolla deeply 5-lobed, purple; tube cylindric, ca 4-5 mm long, glabrous; limb ca 2 cm diam.; lobes oblong, ca 8-10 mm long, reflexed; midpetaline bands sericeo-strigillose, margins glabrous. Stamens white; filaments inserted at the mouth of the tube, glabrous at the base. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled.
Fruits:
Fruit unknown.
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 the jungle, at ca 1500
m.
References:
Ooststroom,S.J. van & R.D. Hoogland. 1953. Convolvulaceae In Flora Malesiana 4:388–512.
Authorship for webpage
Editor:
Esmond Er
Contributors:
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