Pyrenacantha volubilis

Pyrenacantha volubilis Wight, Bot. Misc. 2: 107 (1830) (syn: Cavanilla volubilis Kuntze ; Pyrenacantha volubilis var. elliptica Pierre ; Pyrenacantha volubilis var. oblonga Pierre);
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W. India to Hainan and Indo-China: Cambodia, Hainan, India, Laos, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO;
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Much branched climber. Leaves rhomboid-lanceolate, obtuse at base, coarsely 3 or 4-toothed at margin, retuse or mucronate at apex, to 12 x 3.5 cm, subcoriaceous, scabrid beneath with a pair of glands at base; petioles ca 1 cm long. Male flowers in spikes and female ones in heads. Male flowers: Calyx absent. Petals 4, connate at base, valvate, oblong, inflexed at apex, pubescent outside; stamens 4; pistillode minute, villous. Female flowers: Staminode minute; ovary ellipsoid, pubescent, 1-loculed with 2 pendulous, collateral ovules; stigma sessile with radiating branches. Drupes ovoid, laterally compressed, ca 1.5 x 1 cm, orange to red, fleshy; endocarp thin, punctate outside, papillose inside projecting into ruminate endosperm.
Flowering and fruiting: June-November
Evergreen forests, also in the sacred groves
(Attributions: Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi as per India Biodiversity Portal)
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Pyrenacantha volubilis:
Pyrenacantha volubilis Wight
Villupuram district, On a edge of road near Oorani


 

 


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References:
POWO  Catalogue of Life  GBIF (High resolution specimens) BSI Flora of India checklist  Flora of China  FOC illustration Flora of Sri Lanka  Flora of peninsular India  India Biodiversity Portal

Updated on December 23, 2024

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