Uvaria L.

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Flora of Papua New Guinea
Lae National Herbarium
Morobe province; Atzera Range, lowland forest near the 9 mile settlement,
elev. 200-400 m.
with Melodinus 9297; scandent, woody and inermous; twigs terete, dark
brown, covered with a mealy pubescence, the hairs often stellate, bearing
numerous axillary buds rufous tomentulose; leaves alternate, distichous,
divaricate, exstipulate, stellate pubescent on both surfaces, coriaceous,
adaxially medium green, weakly shining sometimes sub-bullate x abaxially
dull yellow-green; lamina elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, typical blade
19 x 8.25 cm, apex acuminate, margin entire, base rounded to truncate;
petiole 1 cm, slightly flattened above, orange-brown pubescent; venation
unicostate, pinnatinerved, laterals c. 12 pairs, straight oblique or spreading
arcuate, always curving at the margins, closing or not, reticulated, plexus
irregular; fruits not seen; inflorescence extra-axillary, from the nodes or
internodes, 1 to several together, the axial length <3 cm, shortly
pedunculate, all axes orange-brown tomentose, bracteate; bracts small,
usually acute, with investiture as the axes; flowers actinomorphic, rather
showy, dia.=4 cm when petals deployed; sepals 3, valvate, concave,
broadly ovate, cleft nearly to the base, dull yellow to brownish-yellow,
pubescent; corolla choripetalous, 3+3, conform, the petals oblong-
orbicular, pubescent on both sides, dull red, patent at anthesis then
recurved; torus raised; androecium of numerous stamens, anthercells
marginal, concealed by the flattened but highly oblique connective; carpels
indeterminate; stigmas convolute,
flowers bottled at A.
coll. W. Takeuchi 9298
det.: ibid
date: Dec. 13, 1993
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