Illigera celebica Miq.

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Hernandiaceae > Illigera

Characteristics

Lianas. Stem angulate, glabrous. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole 5-7(-14) cm, striate, glabrous; leaflets: petiolules 1-2.5 cm, glabrous; blade ovate to ovate-elliptic, 6-15 × 3.5-7 cm, papery to subleathery, both surfaces glabrous, lateral veins 4-or 5-paired, veinlets conspicuous on both surfaces, base rounded to subcordate, apex abruptly acuminate. Cymose panicles axillary, lax, ca. 20 cm. Flowers green-white; bracteoles small; flower buds globose, 2-5 mm in diam. Outer tepals elliptic-oblong, 5-6 × 2-2.5 mm, pubescent. Inner tepals similar to outer ones but narrower and abaxially conspicuously densely shortly white pubescent. Filaments curved around anthers in bud, tepal-like, lower part complanate, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, filiform toward apex, ca. 2 × as long as tepals when open, pubescent; appendages stipitate, clavate, ovoid, ca. 0.6 mm, inserted abaxially on broad base of filaments and covered by them. Ovary ca. 3 mm, tetragonous, constricted at apex, glabrous; style ca. 2.5 mm, villous; stigma dilated, cristate. Interstaminal glands absent. Fruit 3-5 cm in diam., 4-winged; large wings 1.5-2.5 cm wide, smaller wings 0.5-1.4 cm wide. Fl. Apr-Dec, fr. Jun-Nov.
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Leaves: petiole 4-11.5 cm, petiolules 1-2.5 cm, glabrous or partly palish hairy; leaflets thinly or thickly chartaceous, lanceolate or lanceolate-ovate, 7-17 by 2-8.5 cm, acumen 0.5-1 cm long, base cuneate or subcordate, glabrous on both surfaces, con-spicuously olivaceous when dry, often shining above, nerves on lower surface glabrous or hairy, domatia absent, nerves: 4-7 per side, at angles of 40-60° with midrib and arching towards the apex; thyrses slightly pubescent. Flower buds globose, 2-5 mm in diameter; stamens in bud inwardly coiled. Bracteoles early falling, c. 1.5 by 0.5 mm. Perianth: green, white, pinkish, or violet, all parts more or less hairy (see note 1); tepals lanceolate, acute, outer ones 5-7 by c. 2 mm, inner ones 4.5-6 by c. 1 mm. Filaments reddish, tepal-like, filiform towards apex, 10-13 mm long, dilated towards the base, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, margins curved around the staminal appendages; staminal append-ages clavate, dorsally inserted on the bases of the broad filaments, c. 0.6 mm long; interstaminal glands absent. Fruits unequally 4-winged, nut 2-3.3 cm long; longer wings lingulate, 2-2.7 cm long, shorter ones 1-1.4 cm long.
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Growth form shrub
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Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature height (meter) 0.04 - 0.12
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Illigera celebica world distribution map, present in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:170649-1
WFO ID wfo-0001065354
COL ID 3PGQB
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Synonyms

Illigera ovatifolia Illigera yaoshanensis Illigera celebica Illigera platyandra