Mycetia longifolia Kuntze

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubs, to 2 m tall; branches hirtellous or villosulous becoming glabrescent. Leaves isophyllous or slightly anisophyllous; petiole 0.6-2.5(-6) cm, hirtellous or villosulous; blade drying papery, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic, 5-18(-35) × 3-7(-10) cm, adaxially sparsely strigillose, hispidulous, or glabrous, abaxially sparsely to densely puberulent or hirtellous to glabrescent, base cuneate to acute and often decurrent, apex acuminate to caudate; secondary veins 13-20 pairs; stipules usually persistent, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, 5-15 mm, villosulous or hirtellous, acute to acuminate and sometimes shortly 2-lobed. Inflorescences terminal or sometimes pseudoaxillary, laxly cymose, villosulous to glabrous, subsessile to pedunculate; peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm; branched portion 3-4 × 5-6 cm; bracts elliptic to ovate, 1-3 mm, marginally sparsely stipitate-glandular; pedicels 2-5 mm. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx glabrous; hypanthium portion subglobose, 1.5-2 mm; limb deeply lobed; lobes triangular, 1.5-4 mm, with 1 or 2 pairs of stipitate glands on margins, these 0.2-0.5 mm. Corolla yellow, tubular, outside glabrous to villosulous; tube 10-14 mm, inside villous; lobes broadly ovate, 1-1.5 mm. Berries subglobose, 4-5 mm in diam., glabrescent. Fl. summer and autumn.
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A shrub. It grows 2 m tall. The leaves are narrowly oval or sword shaped an 5-18 cm long by 3-7 cm wide. The flowers are tube shaped and yellow. The fruit are a flattened round shape and 4-5 mm across.
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Mature height (meter) 2.0
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It is a subtropical plant. It grows in Yunnan.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

The leaves are cooked and eaten as a vegetable.
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Edible leaves
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Distribution

Mycetia longifolia world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, China, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:756896-1
WFO ID wfo-0000246902
COL ID 6S4CW
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Synonyms

Mycetia longifolia Adenosacme longifolia Adenosacme longifolia Wendlandia longifolia Rondeletia longifolia