Nomenclature
Accepted name/Authority/Place of publication:
ArgyreiacongestaOoststr., Blumea 7 (1952) 176.
Description
Habit:
Stems twining, densely appressed-pilose to tomentose, with fulvous hairs.
Leaves:
Leaves narrowly ovate or ovate, 8-17 by 3½-9 cm, rounded at the base, attenuate towards the acute or acuminate apex; lower surface densely appressed-pilose with straight or slightly curved hairs, or almost tomentose in youth, upper surface less densely hairy with more rigid hairs; midrib and 8-10 nerves on either side distinctly visible on both sides; petiole 3-8 cm, grooved, pilose like the stem.
Inflorescences:
Peduncles axillary, terete, rather slender, 4-10 cm, densely pilose; flowers in a small, dense, more or less capitates cyme; branches of cyme very short. Pedicels 2-4 mm. Bracts subpersistent, broadly obovate, rounded to truncate at the apex, ca 10-12 mm long, densely appressed-pilose outside, glabrous inside.
Flowers:
Sepals concave, elliptic-oblong, obtuse; two outer ones ca 8 mm long, outside pilose like the bracts, inside glabrous; sepal 3 sligntly oblique, ca 7 mm long, outside pilose with one glabrous margin; two inner sepals ca 6½ mm long, nearly glabrous. Corolla deeply 5-fid, pink, the lobes with white tips; tube ca 5 mm long, glabrous; lobes linear, ca 17 mm long, densely hairy outside, with 2 glabrous lobules at the apex. Filaments inserted at the mouth of the tube, glabrous. 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 (Sabah).
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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