Nomenclature
Accepted name/Authority/Place of publication:
Argyreia pedicellata Ooststr., Blumea 5 (1943) 379.
Description
Habit:
Stems twining, terete, pale greyish brown, lenticellate; young parts appressed-pilose, soon glabrous.
Leaves:
Leaves oblong to ovate-oblong, 5-12 by 1½- 6 cm, obtuse or acutish at the base, attenuate towards the obtusish or acute, mucronulate apex, or slightly acuminate, glabrous above except for the midrib, sparsely appressed-pilose and glabrescent beneath (occasionally densely hairy beneath);
nerves 5-8 on either side of the midrib; petiole 1½-5 cm.
Inflorescences:
Peduncles axillary, 5-10 cm, sparsely appressed-pilose, lenticellate, cymosely branched at the apex, few- to several-flowered. Pedicels sparsely appressed-pilose, more densely
so near their base (occasionally hairy over the whole length), 7-12 mm, in fruit up to 25 mm long, at that time nodding, and slightly curved at the base, gradually thickened towards the apex.
Flowers:
Sepals subequal or outer ones a little shorter; two outer sepals oblong to ovate-oblong, 6-6½ mm long, sparsely appressed-pilose; sepal 3 ovate, 6-6½ mm long, with one thin glabrous margin; two inner sepals broadly ovate to triangular, ea 7 mm long, with two glabrous margins. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, white; limb subentire, ea 4½-5 cm diam.; midpetaline bands sericeous, connecting fields and basal portion of corolla glabrous. Filaments glandular-papillose throughout. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled.
Fruits:
Fruit ellipsoid, up to 12 mm long, with 1 ellipsoid seed.
Seeds:
1 ellipsoid seed.
References:
Ooststroom,S.J. van & R.D. Hoogland. 1953. Convolvulaceae In Flora Malesiana 4:388–512.
Biogeography, Ecology and Natural History
Distribution:
Philippines (Luzon).
References:
Ooststroom,S.J. van & R.D. Hoogland. 1953. Convolvulaceae In Flora Malesiana 4:388–512.
Other information
General comments:
Specimens collected by Mrs CLEMENS (no 50)in Mindanao (Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao) in the U.S. Nat. Herb., ditto (s.n.)in Herb. Bog. , formerly referred to this species (cf .Blumea 5, 1943,379, note) appear to be specifically distinct; the specimens are too imperfectfor a full description.
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Editor:
Esmond Er
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