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5. Breynia racemosa (Blume) Müll.Arg.wfo-0000413990

in DC., Prodr. 15(2): 441. 1866; Airy Shaw, Kew Bull. Add. Ser. 4: 62. 1975; Chakrab. & M.G.Gangop., J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 20: 505, fig. 2. 1996; Welzen & Esser in Welzen et al., Thai Forest Bull., Bot. 28: 76. 2000.— Melanthesa racemosa Blume, Bijdr.: 592. 1825.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Synonyms & Citations :

Description : Shrub up to 3 m tall, often straggling to climbing, glabrous. Stipules 1.3–2 by 0.5–1 mm. Leaves: petiole 1.5–3 mm long; blade ovate(-elliptic), 1.9–3.6 by 1.2–2 cm, length/width ratio 1.7–2.2, chartaceous to coriaceous, base obtuse to rounded, symmetric, margin recurved, apex acute, dark green above, pale green and distinctly glaucous when dry beneath; nerves 6 or 7 until the apex, veinlets not visible beneath. Staminate flowers with pedicel up to 3 mm long. Pistillate flowers solitary, 1.7–3.5 mn in diam.; pedicel 0.5–1.8 mm long; calyx 1–1.8 mm long, chartaceous to coriaceous, lobes 0.7–1 inm wide; ovary obconical, ca 1.3 by 1.3 mm; stigmas 0.15–0.25 mm long, not united, simple, pointing towards each other. Fruits solitary; pedicel 1.5–3 mm long; calyx chartaceous, 2.25–3.5 mm in diam., with free lobes of 0.3–0.7 mm, usually glaucous outside; capsule 4–5 by 4.5–6 mm, becoming red, with a thin fleshy outer part and drying blackish-brown, without an apical ring. Seeds ca 4 by 2.3 by 2.3 mm, orange.

Thailand : PENINSULAR: Ranong (Kapoe), Pattani (To Mo), Narathiwat (Kuchum, Sirinthon, Tamborn Lahan).

Distribution : India (Nicobar Islands), Malay Peninsula (including Singapore), Sumatra, Java (type), Borneo, Sulawesi.

Ecology : In scrub, forests edges, open grasslands, near beach forests, on sandy soil, sea level up to 500 m alt.

Vernacular : Kang pla (ก้างปลา), kang pla thuan (ก้างปลาทวน)(Peninsular).