Strychnos oleifolia A.W.Hill

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Loganiaceae > Strychnos

Characteristics

Liana. Twigs glabrous, branchlets yellowish brown, more or less scabrous by many small lenticels. Leaves ovate-oblong to-lanceolate, c. 11-12 by 4 cm, chartaceous, glabrous, base broadly cuneate, slightly attenuate, apex gradually acuminate; 3-5-plinerved, the inner nerves diverging at c. 2 mm above the base; petiole 6-10 mm. Inflorescences terminal, 7-8 cm long, fairly laxly branched and many-flowered, thinly short-hairy. Calyx 1.25 mm, sepals ovate, blunt, sparsely hairy outside, inside glabrous. Corolla 8 mm, outside with some scattered short hairs about the mouth and along the sutures, inside woolly from slightly above the base of the tube to about halfway the lobes; tube 3.5 mm long. Stamens inserted in the mouth, filaments 2 mm, glabrous, anthers elliptic, 1.5 mm long, glabrous. Pistil 6 mm, thinly shaggy hairy on the upper half of the ovary and all along the style. Fruit unknown.
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In forests at low altitudes. Fl.--05.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Strychnos oleifolia world distribution map, present in Malaysia and Philippines

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:547378-1
WFO ID wfo-0000502870
COL ID 537BG
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Synonyms

Strychnos oleifolia