Nomenclature
Accepted name/Authority/Place of publication:
Argyreialinggaensis Ooststr.,Blumea 7 (1952) 171.
Description
Habit:
Plant entirely glabrous, or with some appressed hairs in the leaf-axils and on the petioles and the nerves. Stems twining, branches terete or striate.
Leaves:
Leaves oblong, ovate, or ovate-elliptic, 10-16 by 4-9 cm, rounded, truncate or slightly cordate at the base, acute to shortly acuminate, mucronulate at the apex; midrib, 5-7 arcuate nerves on either side of it, and reticulate minor nervation distinctly prominent beneath; petiole 2-6 cm, sulcate.
Inflorescences:
Peduncles axillary, straight or curved, 5- 7 cm, subangular, cymosely branched at the apex, 1-5-fiowered. Pedicels 4-7 mm long.
Flowers:
Two outer sepals ovate, acutish, ca 5 mm long; three inner ones slightly longer, up to 6 mm long, broadly ovate, obtuse,
with thinner margins. Corolla funnel-shaped, ca 5½ cm long, glabrous outside, red; limb suberitire. Stamens and style included. Filaments shortly pilose at the base. Ovary glabrous.
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:
Edges of forests, 20–30 m.
References:
Ooststroom,S.J. van & R.D. Hoogland. 1953. Convolvulaceae In Flora Malesiana 4:388–512.
Other information
General comments:
The leaves of the specimens fromPulau Singkep (Lingga Arch.) are ovate or ovate-elliptic; those of the Sumatranspecimen are oblong.
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Esmond Er
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