Alyxia reinwardtii Blume

Ground creepers or climbers. Branchlets terete, weakly or strongly angled, densely lenticellate or not, glabrous to sparsely or densely puberulent. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3-5; petiole 0.1-1.8 cm long, glabrous or pubescent; blade coriaceous to papery, elliptic, obovate or oblong, 1.1-17 by 0.3-6.1 cm, 1.5-5.1 times as long as wide, apex obtuse to acuminate, rarely caudate, not mucronate, base obtuse to decurrent onto petiole, margin weakly undulate or not, glabrous, sparsely puberulent only on midrib or puberulent all over beneath, glabrous, puberulent only on midrib or all over above, not punctate beneath, secondary veins 12-57 pairs, 60-90° from midrib. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, most frequently a simple unbranched pleiochasium, occasionally with a terminal compound pleiochasium with 1 or 2 nodes, much more rarely more complex with 1 or 2 internodes and branched or unbranched side branches, glabrous to puberulent in upper parts or all over, 1-3.5 cm long; peduncle 0.2-1.9 cm by 0.5-1.4 mm; bracts caducous or persistent, ovate, deltoid, linear, leafy or narrowly ovate, 1.1-4.5 by 0.5-1.2 mm; bracteoles one on pedicel or two immediately beneath calyx or on pedicel, absent or only on pedicel of terminal flower; flowers 3-12; pedicels 0.5-4.4 mm long. Sepals free, not fleshy, linear, ovate or narrowly ovate, 1-3.5 by 0.4-1.8 mm, 1.2-3.8 times as long as wide, apex obtuse to acuminate, ciliate, glabrous or sparsely to densely puberulent all over or puberulent on tips only. Corolla white, cream, yellow, pink, or with an orange or pale brown tube and white lobes; bud head 1.2-3.7 mm long which is 0.18-0.32(-0.42) of bud length, globular, ellipsoid, narrowly ovate, ovate or deltoid, apex rounded, obtuse, acute or acuminate; tube cylindrical, 3-14 by 1.1-2 mm, 1.6-10 times as long as sepals, 1.2-5.3 times as long as lobes, glabrous or sparsely puberulent around top of tube outside, glabrous or pubescent in upper half and around stamens inside; lobes elliptic, oblong, ovate or orbicular, 1.2-3.8 by 1-3.1 mm, 0.7-3.1 times as long as wide, apex rounded to acute, base auriculate, glabrous or sparsely puberulent outside, glabrous or pubescent at tips of lobes inside, ciliate, not ciliate or ciliate near tips only. Stamens inserted at 2.7-9.4 mm from corolla base which is 0.67-0.87 of tube length; filaments 0.2-0.8 mm long; anther apex 0-1 mm from corolla mouth, anthers 0.6-1.5 by 0.3-0.6 mm. Ovaries 0.4-1.2 mm high, glabrous, pubescent all over or pubescent around base only; style 0.9-8.5 mm long; style head 0.4-0.7 mm long. Fruit maturing black; stalks 1-14 mm long; with 1 or 2 articles in each string, 1 mm between articles, glabrous or sparsely puberulent at ends, articles with thin flesh, 6-20(-25.3) by 4.8-11.4 mm, ellipsoid or globose, symmetrical, apex rounded, acuminate or apiculate. Seeds 4.6-11 by 3.9-6.7 by 3-6.2 mm.

Lowland to montane forest. Found in a wide range of habitats from primary or secondary lowland to montane or peat swamp forest or in scrub or open ridges; on granitic, sandy, clay or ultrabasic soils, from sea-level to 3,050 metres.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.