Wendlandia ligustrina Wall. & G.Don

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Rubiaceae > Wendlandia

Characteristics

Shrubs, 1.5-3 m tall; branches flattened to quadrangular, strigillose to glabrescent. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.8-1.5 cm, strigillose to glabrescent; blade drying leathery, dark brown adaxially, reddish brown abaxially, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, 3-12 × 1.5-6 cm, adaxially glabrous, abaxially glabrescent to sparsely strigillose or puberulent at least along principal veins, base cuneate and sometimes shortly decurrent, apex acute or obtuse; secondary veins 6-8 pairs; stipules generally persistent, broadly triangular, 2-3 mm, strigillose to glabrescent, apex erect, cuspidate. Inflorescences paniculate, pyramidal, 15-17 × 12-20 cm, branched to 2 or 3 orders, densely hirtellous to strigillose, sessile and tripartite or pedunculate; peduncle 2-3 cm; bracts 1.5-6 mm; pedicels to 1 mm. Flowers sessile to shortly pedicellate. Calyx moderately to sparsely strigillose; hypanthium portion ellipsoid, ca. 1 mm; limb lobed nearly to base; lobes narrowly triangular to linear, 1-1.5 mm, generally unequal on an individual flower. Corolla yellow or pale yellowish green, salverform to tubular-funnelform, glabrous outside; tube 3.5-5 mm, pilose in throat; lobes narrowly oblong to spatulate, 1.5-2.2 mm. Filaments ca. 1 mm; anthers linear-lanceolate, 1.2-1.5 mm, partially exserted. Stigma 2-lobed, ca. 1 mm. Capsules subglobose, ca. 2 mm, strigillose. Fl. Jun-Feb of following year.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Wendlandia ligustrina world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, China, and Myanmar

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:770468-1
WFO ID wfo-0000334117
COL ID 5BX67
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Synonyms

Wendlandia ligustrina