Nomenclature
Accepted name/Authority/Place of publication:
Argyreia strigillosa C. Y. Wu, Yunnan Redai Yaredai Zhiwu Quxi Yanjiu Baogao (Rept. Stud. Pl. Trop. Subtrop. Yunnan) 1: 133. 1965.
Description
Habit:
Shrubs, scandent. Axial parts ± strigose, young ones densely so. Stems pale or dark brown, ± terete.
Leaves:
Petiole ca. 6 cm; leaf blade nearly circular, ca. 12 × 11 cm or larger, sparsely strigose, base shallowly cordate, apex obtuse to acute; lateral veins 8–11 pairs.
Inflorescences:
Cymes axillary, few to several flowered; peduncle 5–11 cm or more; bracts early deciduous, oblong-elliptic, ca. 1 cm. Pedicel 8–10 mm.
Flowers:
Sepals broadly elliptic to ovate, ± equal, 9–11 × 5–6 mm, densely golden woolly abaxially, glabrous and black-brown (in dry specimens) adaxially, apex obtuse to acute. Corolla purple-red, funnelform, 2.8–4 cm, midpetaline bands sparsely whitish pilose-strigose; limb shallowly lobed. Stamens and pistil included; filaments ca. 1.4 cm, basally glandular pubescent; anthers oblong, ca. 3 mm. Disc ring-like, ca. 1 mm tall. Ovary glabrous, style ca. 1.4 cm.
Fruits:
Fruit unknown.
References:
Fang R.C., G. Staples, et al. 1995. Convolvulaceae in P. Raven & C.Y. Wu (eds.) Flora of China 16: 271–325.
Biogeography, Ecology and Natural History
Distribution:
China (S Yunnan). Endemic.
Ecology:
Streamside
and roadside thickets; 1100–1600 m.
Phenology:
Flw. Oct-Nov.
References:
Fang R.C., G. Staples, et al. 1995. Convolvulaceae in P. Raven & C.Y. Wu (eds.) Flora of China 16: 271–325.
Other information
Common names and uses:
xi mao yin bei teng (Chinese).
General comments:
This species is very similar to specimens from Thailand called Argyreia thomsonii (C. B. Clarke) Craib and may prove to be conspecific with it.
Authorship for webpage
Editor:
George Staples, Esmond Er
Contributors:
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