Tylophora flexuosa
Description 3
Lianas slender, to 2.5 m. Young stems puberulent along 1 side. Petiole 5-10 mm, puberulent; leaf blade ovate to ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 1-8 × 0.8-4.5 cm, thin papery, glabrous or sometimes ciliate, glabrous or sometimes puberulent along midvein, base cuneate to rounded, apex acute or obtuse, sometimes apiculate. Inflorescence rachis simple to much branched, 3-10 cm; cymules densely to laxly racemelike. Pedicel ca. 1.5 cm. Sepals ovate, glabrous; glands 5. Corolla white, rotate, ca. 5 mm in diam., glabrous outside, pubescent inside; lobes ovate-oblong or ovate-triangular. Corona lobes ovoid, pouched. Anthers short, appendages extending beyond stigma head; pollinia globose, horizontal to suberect. Stigma head semiglobose. Follicles lanceolate in outline, 4-8 cm × 6-10 mm, glabrous. Seeds ovate, 6-8 mm; coma 1.5-3.5 cm. Fl. Apr-Dec, fr. Jul-Dec. 2n = 22.
Sources and Credits
- (c) Green Baron, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/gancw1/9707581195/
- (c) Green Baron, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/gancw1/9707581345/
- (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/5002574
