Nomenclature
Accepted name/Authority/Place of publication:
Argyreia maingayi (C.B.Clarke) Hoogland, Blumea 7: 185. 1952.
Synonyms:
Lettsomia maingayi C.B.Clarke in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 4: 195. 1883.
Description
Habit:
Woody climbers; stems erect, hirsute with brownish hairs, later glabrescent.
Leaves:
Leaves ovate, elliptic-oblong, or obovate, 9–20 by 3.5–11 cm, base rounded or shortly attenuate, apex acuminate, upper side glabrous or nearly so, underside strigose-hairy along veins only; lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs; petiole 1.5–5 cm, sparsely hirsute.
Inflorescences:
Inflorescence densely capitate; peduncle stout, 1.5–5 cm long; outer bracts broadly ovate to narrowly lanceolate, 2.5–4 cm long, apex obtuse to acute, sparsely brownish-hirsute outside, inner bracts smaller, narrower, all persistent; pedicels very short or none.
Flowers:
Flower sepals ovate-oblong, long-attenuate, 3 outer ones 11–15 mm, of which acumen is 6–9 mm, long-hirsute outside, inner ones 9–13 mm; corolla funnelform, 4.5–6 cm long, white with purple, pink, or red stripe on each lobe, limb subentire, midpetaline bands hairy outside, otherwise glabrous; stamens included, filament bases glandular-pilose; pistil included, ovary glabrous, 2-celled.
Fruits:
Berry ovoid, c. 12 mm long, pink.
Seeds:
Seed 1.
References:
Staples, G. & P. Traiperm. 2010. Argyreia in Convolvulaceae. Fl. Thailand 10(3): 337–371.
Biogeography, Ecology and Natural History
Distribution Map:
Distribution:
Malaysia, Thailand.
Ecology:
Hill slope in
deciduous forest.
Phenology:
Flowering: December.
References:
Staples, G. & P. Traiperm. 2010. Argyreia in Convolvulaceae. Fl. Thailand 10(3): 337–371.
Authorship for webpage
Editor:
George Staples, Esmond Er
Contributors:
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