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Dischidia hirsuta

Botanic Family
Apocynaceae
Author
(Blume) Decaisne

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Pubescent epiphytic creeping or twining slender stem-climbing herb with adventitious roots, pubescent stems. Nearly glabrous or hairy coriaceous purple-green leaves hairy beneath to 26mm x 20mm. Extra-axillary cymes or umbels of single or paired greenish-white to yellowish turning red, pink or purple flowers, crimson at base, pink at tips, in axillary fascicles, red-purple calyx 3mm diameter with glabrous lobes to 1.5mm x 1mm, succulent glabrous corolla dark-red at base becoming pink at apex 7mm x 4mm with 2 rings of hairs in throat. Corolla tube 3mm long hairy inside, pinkish-red lobes hairy inside.Glabrous follicles 75mm long

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