Diagnostic ⁵

"Climbers. Leaves to 11 x 3 cm, oblanceolate, abruptly acuminate, scabrous below, nerves 4-6 pairs, reticulate; stipules 6-7 mm long, ovate, acute, entire. Flowers in globose umbellate, heads, radices fused together, hemispheric, truncate; corolla tube 4 mm long, funnel-shaped, lobes 4, valvate, white; stamens 4; anthers oblong; ovary 2-celled; ovule solitary in each cell; style slender, stigmas 2, linear. Fruit fused into a syncarpium of 1 cm across; seeds oblong."

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Ria Tan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/wildsingapore/3545783142/
2. (c) Lauren Gutierrez, some rights reserved (CC BY-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/guam-flora-fauna/7101010813/
3. (c) Ria Tan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/wildsingapore/3544976681/
4. (c) Ria Tan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/wildsingapore/3545783048/
5. (c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26338873

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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