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Family: Hippocrateaceae
[Tontelea ovalifolia subsp. richardii (Peyr.) Görts & Mennega, moreTontelea richardii (Peyr. ex Mart.) A.C.Sm.] |
Bejuco de canjura Glabrous liana climbing into canopy; stems terete. Stipules deltoid, 1-2 mm long, often leaving conspicuous, usually unconnected scars; petioles 12-17 mm long; blades ovate-oblong to elliptic-oblong, abruptly acuminate to mucronate at apex, rounded at base, 12-24 cm long, 7-11 cm wide, coriaceous. Inflorescences terminal or in uppermost axils, 3-12 cm long; flowers 5-parted, sweetly aromatic, 5-7 mm diam; calyx thick, ca 3.3 mm diam, deeply lobed, the lobes +/- orbicular, imbricate; petals spreading, obovate, to 2.7 mm long, rounded at apex, thick, yellow-orange becoming burnt-orange in age; disk fleshy, bowl-shaped; stamens 3, arising from between disk and ovary, erect, to ca 1 mm long; filaments flattened, broader toward base; anthers obcordate, about as broad as long, extrorse; ovary 3-sided; styles 3, very short, united into equilateral triangle. Fruits heavy drupes to 17 cm long and 12 cm broad; exocarp brown and scurfy outside, 1-1.5 mm thick; locales 3; seeds 2 per locale, large, irregular, to 6 cm wide, with abundant white endosperm, covered with a thick scurfy layer of tissue. Croat 7932, 15069. See Fig. 335. |