Salacia chinensis

Description 2

Climbing shrubs, to 4 m tall; branchlets angular. Petiole 8-10 mm; leaf blade elliptic, narrowly ovate-rotund or obovate-elliptic, (3-)5-11 × (1.5-)2-5 cm, leathery, abaxially brown-green when dry, adaxially shiny olive-green, base cuneate, margin sparsely denticulate, apex subacute to shortly acuminate; lateral veins 6 or 7 pairs. Fascicles axillary, 3-6-flowered; pedicel 6-10 mm. Sepals deltoid, up to 1 mm, margin ciliolate; petals broadly ovate, ca. 3 mm, broadly spreading or curved outward, apex rounded. Disk cupular, ca. 1 mm tall. Stamens 3; filaments short, flat, inserted at margin of disk; anthers forked. Ovary concealed in disk, 3-loculed; ovules 2 per locule; style very short, conic. Berry globose or ovate, ca. 1 cm in diam., red when ripe, 1-seeded. Fl. Dec, fr. Jan-Feb.

Sources and Credits

  1. Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.), no known copyright restrictions (public domain), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Salacia_prinoides_Blanco1.86b-cropped.jpg
  2. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/5004342

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