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Parsonsia curvisepala
Parsonsia curvisepala is a woody vine of the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, found in Malaysia, New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, and Sulawesi. This species is second only to Parsonsia alboflavescens in its variablity and wide geographic distribution.
From the article Parsonsia curvisepala on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The branchlets are covered in short to long brown densely matted woolly hairs. The leaves are 3–4 whorled, but are sometimes opposite. The leaf blade varies from 1.5 to 13.5 x 0.6- 5.8 cm, and is 1.8–4.8 x as long as wide. It has 4–8 pairs of lateral nerves and its tertiary venation is reticulate. The leaf tips usually taper to a point, but sometimes end in a small abrupt point. The leaf base is wedge shaped (with an angle which is sometimes acute and sometimes obtuse). The lower leaf surface is covered in dense brown velvety hairs, while the upper leaf surface is hairy only on the midrib. The elliptic to obovate petiole is 0.5–2.6 cm long. The inflorescences are in the axils with the flowers clustered at the ends, 2–10.5 cm long. These, too, are covered in densely brown velvety hairs. The peduncles are 0.9–7.5 cm long and the pedicels 2–6.1 mm long. The sepals are linear, strongly reflexed and covered in a dense mat of hairs. The corolla is yellowish and the buds cylindrical, with slightly overlapping triangular lobes. When the tubular corolla is open, the tips of the petals are at right angles to the tube. The corolla may be covered in sparse or dense brown hairs, or alternatively it may be smooth outside and hairy on the inside of the upper tube. The stamens start at from 0.5 to 0.8 mm from corolla base, which is 0.1–0.2 of tube length. …
Range & habitat
Malaysia (Malay Peninsula), Sulawesi, the Philippines, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 890364.