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Alyxia stellata
Alyxia stellata
- Botanic Family
- Apocynaceae
- Author
- (J.R. Forster & G. Forster) Roemer & Schultes
- Cultivated
- C, fragrance
Common Names
- Vono (Ra)
- Maile
- Vonomatinilailai (Fiji)
- Maire (Pitcairn)
- Mempelasari or Pelasari or Mempelas Hari or Mempelas (Malay)
Geographical Habitats
- New South Wales
- NE. Queensland. - Australia
- Caroline Islands
- Cook Islands
- Fiji
- Marquesas
- Society Islands
- Tuamotu
- Tubuai Island
- Wallis & Futuna - France
- Marianas Islands
- Malaysia
- New Caledonia
- Nuie
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
- Pitcairn Island - UK
- Hawaii - USA
Natural Habitats
- Arid forest
- coastal
- open forest
- riverside
- montane forest
- forest edge. Variable habitat
- wet forest to arid areas.
Flowering Times
- Jan
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
Fruiting Times
- Feb
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
Erect or scandent glabrous shrub to 8m or twiner with upper branches becoming scandent, frequently lenticellate. Fragrant variable foliage, glabrous coriaceous leaves to 85mm x 43mm with revolute margins. Glabrous erect axillary 3-4 flowered umbels or cymes to 25mm long with triangular bracts to 2mm long, of 5mm long pale yellow or white honey-scented flowers, calyx to 17mm long with 5 pubescent lobes to 13mm x 3mm, white corolla to 9mm long, creamy yellow to orange or salmon corolla tube to 5.5mm long x 1.5mm & 5 cream to yellow lobes 5mm x 3mm. Paired black glossy drupes to 20mm x 12mm with short beak furrowed longitudinally with a persistent style, beak to 2mm.
Used for festive decorations, medicinal
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Mobot
- de Candolle
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- NYBG
- FOH
- FA
- JPS
- Botanicus
- FV
- JAA
- Smithsonian
- J. Florence
- Kew
- Novon
- Gleason & Moldenke
- Wiart 2