Argyreia glabra
Nomenclature
Accepted name/Authority/Place of publication:
ArgyreiaglabraChoisy in Zoll., Syst. Verz. 2 (1854) 128, 130.
Synonyms:
Rivea glabra Hallierf., Bull. Herb. Boiss. 6 (1898) 714.
Description
Habit:
Stems twining, shortly appressed-pilose.
Leaves:
Leaves ovate, 5-8 by 2-4 cm; base rounded, apex acute; appressed-pilose on both sides with short, rigid hairs, more densely beneath than above; midrib and ca 10-11 nerves on either side prominent beneath; minor nerves indistinct beneath; petiole 1-1½ cm, pilose like the stems.
Inflorescences:
Peduncles in the upper leaf-axils, angular, ca 5 cm long, densely appressed-pilose with short, fulvous hairs, as are the branches of it and the pedicels, umbellately cymose, few- to several-flowered. Pedicels up to 5 mm long. Bracts ovate, obtuse, ca 4-5 mm long, densely appressed-pilose.
Flowers:
Sepals densely appressed-pilose with fulvous hairs; three outer ones ovate-elliptic, obtuse, ca 6 mm long; two inner ones ovate, rounded, a little shorter. Corolla 5-fid; tube at least 10 mm long, widened above, glabrous; lobes ovate, ca 15 mm long, patent to reflexed; midpetaline bands sericeous. Filaments dilated and densely pilose 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:
Lesser Sunda Islands (Lombok).
Ecology:
In forests.
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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