Palmeria gracilis Perkins

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Monimiaceae > Palmeria

Characteristics

Woody liana, reaching 20 m, young parts covered with a lax indumentum of simple hairs, together with small stellate hairs especially on the flowers. Leaves usually ovate with broad rounded, cordate, or cuneate base, and a long narrow apiculum, more rarely elliptic with a short apiculum, 4-14.5 by 1.8-11.5 cm, membranaceous, midrib and lateral veins well-defined, upper surface with the remnants of simple hairs and small stellate hairs, or becoming glabrous except for simple hairs along the midrib and sometimes the principal veins and the margin, undersurface with a dense or sparser covering of curved simple hairs mixed with a varying number of small stellate hairs; petiole 2.5-10 mm, hairy. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, either simple pleio-chasia, few-flowered and with a delicate rachis, or branching to the second degree with rather stouter rachis, 5-20 cm long, often produced profusely on lateral branches of limited growth; rachis, branches and pedicels with lax hairs and a varying amount of short dense stellate hairs; bracts linear, caducous. Male receptacle saucer-shaped, 6-8 mm Ø, with 5 re-curved deltoid tepals, outer surface with long simple hairs and dense stellate indumentum; stamens c. 20-24, sessile, c. 1.25 mm long. Female receptacle globose, c. 2.25 mm Ø, outer surface with indumentum as in male, inner surface with long bristles be-tween the carpels; carpels c. 8-10, tapering to a long filiform reflexed style. Immature fruit subspherical with an asymmetric beak; mature fruit splitting into irregular lobes c. 2-2.5 cm long, densely bristly on both surfaces; drupes spherical, sessile, c. 7 mm long when dry.
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A woody creeper. It grows 20 m long. Young parts are hairy. The leaves are oval and have a round or heart shaped base. They are 4-14.5 cm long by 1.8-11.5 cm wide. There are curved bristles under the leaves. The flowers are cream. The fruit are red. They are on a light red cup.
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Mature height (meter) 20.0
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Woody liana reaching 20 m or more, in rain-forest, second growth or open scrubby areas with a wide altitudinal range (500-3000 m), but most frequent in lower montane rain-forest (Castanopsis, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Podocarpus or Elaeocar-pus dominated).
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It is a tropical plant. It has been recorded in the Southern Highlands at 1,365 m above se level.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses. For wrapping tobacco before being smoked in pipes or as cigarettes. When burnt to a fine ash, used as salt.
Uses food medicinal social use
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Distribution

Palmeria gracilis world distribution map, present in Iceland and Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:582178-1
WFO ID wfo-0000474158
COL ID 4C5X3
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Synonyms

Palmeria fengeriana Palmeria gracilis Palmeria paniculata