Leea zippeliana Miq.

Species

Angiosperms > Vitales > Vitaceae > Leea

Characteristics

Slender shrub or tree up to 7 m. Young parts sometimes rusty pubescent. Leaves 1-foliolate. Petiole 3-6 cm; stipules a narrow wing 3-5 mm wide extending the length of the petiole. Scar narrow, similarly long. Leaflets elliptic to elliptic-oblong, (10-)14-25 (-38) by (3-) 7-10(-13) cm, glabrous, chartaceous to subcoriaceous; pearl glands black, stellate, infrequent; margin shallowly toothed; apex acuminate; base narrowly cuneate to truncate; nerves 10-20 pairs, slightly pubescent. Inflorescences 2-6 cm, condensed, pubescent; bracts deltoid, inconspicuous; peduncle to 1½ cm, main branches usually 3, ultimate branches few-flowered. Flowers 5-merous, greenish yellow. Calyx 4 by 4 mm, lobes 1½ by 2 mm. Corolla tube + staminodial lobes 5 mm; corolla lobes 3½ by 2 mm. Staminodial tube 3-3½ mm; upper free part 2-2½ mm, lobes shallowly retuse, sinuses shallow; upper part ¾-1 mm. Filaments 2 mm, anthers 2 mm. Ovary 4-6-locular, style 3-4 mm. Fruit 10-15 mm ø, reddish orange; seeds usually 6, 8 by 5 mm, rumination outline slightly branched, endosperm simply ruminate.
Life form perennial
Growth form
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 7.0
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Environment

Primary rain-forest from the lowland up to 1300 m, frequently in riverine forest, occasional in foothill forest, rare in savannah gallery forest.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses invertebrate food material
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Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 23 - 26
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Germination treatment soaking
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Distribution

Leea zippeliana world distribution map, present in Bahrain, Ghana, and Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:68383-1
WFO ID wfo-0001145777
COL ID 3SX4W
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Leea zippeliana Leea monophylla Leea micholitzii Leea zippeliana var. ornata