Pycnarrhena lucida (Teijsm. & Binn.) Miq.

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Menispermaceae > Pycnarrhena

Characteristics

Woody vines. Old stems grayish brown; young stems ferruginous pubescent. Petiole 1-2 cm, swollen at apex, ferruginous puberulent; leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic, 7-11 × 1.5-3.5 cm, sometimes larger, thinly leathery, adaxially glossy, base broadly subcuneate or rounded, apex mucronate, acuminate, or subacute; lateral veins 5-7. Inflorescences axillary, fasciculate, cymose, base of peduncle puberulent, usually 1(or few)-flowered; male peduncle slender, filiform, 3-5 mm. Male flowers: outer whorl of sepals minute, obovate, puberulent, inner larger, ca. 1.5 mm, slightly fleshy, subrotund, saccate; petals usually 2(-5), broadly elliptic, ca. 0.6 × 1 mm, fleshy; synandrium with (2-)4 or 5(-12) anthers. Female flowers not seen. Drupes red, globose or slightly oblique, [0.8-]1.5-2 cm; endocarp fibrously woody; condyle slightly convex. Seeds reniform.
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Leaves with slender petioles, puberulous at first, later glabrescent, 0.8-1.7 cm; lamina elliptic, apex acuminate, base acute to obtuse, 6-9(-12) by 2.5-4 (-5.5) cm, main lateral nerves c. 6 pairs, reticulation conspicuous and prominent on both surfaces, glabrous (rarely puberulous along midrib and main nerves on lower surface). Inflorescences axillary or ramiflorous, fasciculate; peduncles 1-(or few-) flowered, 3—5(—10) mm, usually puberulous. Male flowers: sepals 9-12, outer ones minute, puberulous, inner 3-6 larger, rotund to broadly rotund, 1.25 by 1.25-1.75 mm, glabrous; petals 3, cuneiform, 0.5-0.75 mm long; stamens 6-12, 0.5 mm, shortly connate. Female flowers unknown. Drupes red, globose, 8-15 mm ø, glabrous; endocarp crustaceous.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Forests, up to 500 m, in Casuarina equisetifolia stands near the shore on P. Panaitan, on lime-stone in Peninsular Thailand.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Pycnarrhena lucida world distribution map, present in China, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:581307-1
WFO ID wfo-0001238604
COL ID 4QLZC
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Synonyms

Antitaxis nodiflora Cocculus lucidus Antitaxis calocarpa Antitaxis lucida Pycnarrhena calocarpa Telotia nodiflora Pycnarrhena lucida Pycnarrhena fasciculata