Salacia confertiflora Merr.

Species

Angiosperms > Celastrales > Celastraceae > Salacia

Characteristics

Climbing shrubs, to 10 m tall; branchlets slightly compressed, glabrous. Petiole 5-7 mm; leaf blade elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 5-11 × 2-5 cm, subleathery, abaxially gray-white, adaxially dark green, shiny, base obtuse or broadly acute, margin entire, apex shortly acuminate to mucronate; lateral veins 7 or 8 pairs, abaxially prominent. Cymes glomerulate, axillary or terminal; peduncle 4-7 mm; pedicel 2-3 mm. Flowers green or light yellow, ca. 2.5 mm in diam.; sepals subrounded, margin erose; petals broadly obovate, 1.5-2 mm, apex rounded. Disk robust. Berry oblong, ca. 2 × 1.6 cm. Fl. Aug, fr. Nov.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 10.0
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Distribution

Salacia confertiflora world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:431184-1
WFO ID wfo-0001065578
COL ID 78ZSK
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Synonyms

Salacia confertiflora