Luvunga Wight & Arn.

Genus

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae

Characteristics

Woody climbers, with straight or recurved axillary spines, without rust-colored villosulous indumentum on terminal and axillary buds or young inflorescences. Leaves alternate, digitately 3-foliolate; leaflets petiolulate (occasional leaves 1-foliolate, including sometimes all of those on new shoots). Inflorescences terminal, axillary, or basal to leaves, paniculate or racemose. Flowers bisexual. Calyx cup-shaped, 3-5-lobed (often irregularly) or truncate. Petals 3-5, imbricate in bud. Stamens 6-10, equal in length, distinct or monadelphous. Disk annular, pulvinate, or columnar. Gynoecium 2-4-loculed, syncarpous; ovules 1 or 2 per locule; style to 4 × as long as ovary, deciduous in fruit. Fruit a berry, with mucilaginous pulp and without pulp vesicles; endocarp membranous or fleshy. Seeds with membranous seed coat; endosperm lacking; embryo straight; cotyledons elliptic, plano-convex; hypocotyl partly included between cotyledons.
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Evergreen lianes with axillary solitary spines sometimes hooked. Twigs ±terete. Leaves (1) 3-foliolate; petiole pulvinate, not winged. Flowers in axillary racemes or solitary, bisexual, 3–5-merous. Calyx cupular; margin lobed. Petals imbricate. Stamens 6–10, free or ±basally connate. Disc annular, pulvinate or columnar. Ovary 3–5-locular, with gynophore, each locule with 1 or 2 ovules. Berry rounded or lobed, resinous; mesocarp mucilaginous. Seeds 1–3, ovoid or flattened with single straight embryo.
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Images

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Distribution

Luvunga world distribution map, present in Australia and China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:35812-1
WFO ID wfo-4000022459
COL ID 5HFN
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Synonyms

Luvunga

Lower taxons

Luvunga sarmentosa Luvunga motleyi Luvunga minutiflora Luvunga borneensis Luvunga philippinensis Luvunga scandens Luvunga papuana Luvunga monophylla