Nomenclature
Accepted name/Authority/Place of publication:
Erycibe sinii F. C. How, Sunyatsenia 6: 226. 1946.
Description
Habit:
Shrubs, scandent. Branchlets distinctly striate, appressed pilose, glabrescent.
Leaves:
Petiole 1–1.2 cm; leaf blade elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 6–9 × 2.5–4.3 cm, papery, abaxial surface sparsely strigillose and finely spotted, adaxial surface glabrous, base cuneate, apex abruptly acute; lateral veins 5–7 pairs, veinlets indistinct.
Inflorescences:
Inflorescences terminal or axillary, racemose or paniculate, 8–10 cm, densely appressed brownish pubescent.
Flowers:
Pedicel ca. 2 mm. Sepals circular, 2–3 mm, densely appressed red-brown sericeous. Corolla ca. 7.5 mm, midpetaline bands red-brown sericeous outside; lobules oblong-ovate, ca. 3 mm, margin crenulate. Filaments very short, dilated basally; anthers ovate-oblong, apex abruptly acuminate. Ovary globose, glabrous; stigma capitate, 5-ridged.
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 (Guangxi).
Phenology:
Fruit unknown. Fl. Jun.
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:
yao shan ding gong teng (Chinese).
General comments:
Hoogland
(1953: 358) did not examine any type material for this species and suggested,
based on the description, that it might be conspecific with Erycibe schmidtii Craib.
Authorship for webpage
Editor:
George Staples, Esmond Er
Contributors:
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