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2. Celastrus monospermoides Loes.wfo-0000592822

Nova Guinea 8: 280. 1910; Ding Hou, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 42: 246, t. 32, fig. 6, map 2/9. 1955; in Steenis, Fl. Males, ser. 1, 6: 236. 1963.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Synonyms & Citations :

Description : Lianas, young branchlets straight, glabrous, light brownish, with distinct lenticels. Leaves elliptic, ovate, rarely broadly ovate or suborbiculate, 5–13 by 2.5–8 cm, base cuneate, obtuse to rounded, apex acute to acuminate, margin serrulate, nerves 4–7 per side, venation loosely reticulate, petiole 5–20 mm long. Inflorescences axillary as well as terminal, solitary or in groups of 1–3, usually racemiform or paniculate, to 10 cm long, with more than 5 flowers. Calyx lobes suborbiculate, ca 0.7 mm long. Petals oblong or oblong-elliptic, 1.5–2.5 mm long, entire, usually pink-punctate. Disk fleshy, flat. Fertile stamens 1.5–2.5 mm long, filaments glabrous; sterile ones in female flowers smaller, ca 0.7 mm long. Pistil flask-like, ca 1.25 mm long, pistillode in male flowers smaller. Fruits broad-ovoid or -ellipsoid, 11–14 by 7–10 mm, basally obtuse, not stipitate, 1-seeded. Seeds broad-ellipsoid or -ovoid, 7–10 by 5–7 mm.

Thailand : CENTRAL: Nakhon Nayok (Khao Yai NP); PENINSULAR: Pattani (Tomo), Yala (Khao Han Kut), Narathiwat (Su-ngai Kolok).

Distribution : Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia (Papua – type), the Philippines.

Ecology : Evergreen forests, 200–1,360 m alt. Flowering: December; fruiting: February, March.