Medinilla radicans (Blume) Blume

국표에 없다.

• Flora 14: 509 (1831) 

• This name is reported by Melastomataceae as an accepted name in the genus Medinilla (family Melastomataceae).

  The record derives from IPNI (data supplied on 2024-06-04) which reports it as an accepted name

General Information

Root climber, branchlets ± terete, ribbed or smooth, glabrous, sometimes with shallow grooves and thickened nodes, bark striate or pustulate, adventitious roots common. Leaves in whorls of 4 or 5, obovate or elliptic, 7–16 x 3–6.5 cm, coriaceous, apex acute or acuminate, base decurrent, lamina with 1 pair of lateral primary veins, petioles 1.5–3 cm long. Inflorescences umbelliform short cymes with 6–8 flowers, up to 3 cm long and borne on leafless nodes on older branches, peduncle 0.5–1 cm long. Flowers 4-merous, bracts and bracteoles minute, caducous. Hypanthium campanulate, elongated, including the truncate calyx rim, 7–11 mm high, mucronate, ovary ca ¾ as long as the hypanthium, stamen pockets extending below the middle of the ovary. Petals 4, thickened, oblong, rounded at the tip, 8–10 mm long, pink or white. Stamens 8, dimorphic, episepalous (outer) stamens 15–16 mm long, anthers straight, connective between the anthers and the filament insertion 3 mm long, dorsal and ventral connective appendages shorter than those of the smaller inner stamens, epipetalous (inner) stamens 7–9 mm long, anthers curved, connective with a spatulate dorsal spur, ca 2 mm long and with two ventral thickened, bulbous spurs, ca 1.5 mm long. Fruit urceolate, 9–11 mm across, remnant of the calyx rim 4–5 mm wide, pericarp 1 mm thick, pinkish-green turning dark red when ripe.

• Provided by: [B].e-Flora of Thailand

Ecology

Altitude: 450 m.

• Provided by: [B].e-Flora of Thailand

Distribution

Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Java (type of Medinilla radicans, BLUME s.n.).

Medinilla radicans (Blume) Blume (worldfloraonline.org)

 

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