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Heteroblemma serpens

Botanic Family
Melastomataceae
Author
(Stapf) Cámara-Leret, Ridder-Numan & Veldkamp

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Fruiting Times

Climber to 7m, tomentose young branches becoming grooved & glabrescent. Glabrous leaves with serrulate margins, to 270mm x 240mm. Cauliflorosu or axillary fascicles of flowers with bracts to 2mm long, 4 tomentose calyx lobes, sepals to 1mm long, 4 pink or pale red petals 7mm x 5mm. Ribbed orange to brown glabrescent fruit to 6mm x 5mm with persistent calyx lobes.

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