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Malanea erecta

Botanic Family
Rubiaceae
Author
Seemann

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Woody liana, shrub or tree with lenticellate glabrescent branches, leaves 130mm x 75mm glabrous above sparsely strigose or pilose beneath becoming glabrate, axillary panicles to 130mm x 80mm with bracts to 4mm long & bracteoles to 1mm long, of fragrant white & cream flowers to 4mm long with bracts, pilose calyx with 4 lobes 1.3mm long, white or greenish corolla glabrous outside 2.5mm long, tube to 2.5mm x 1mm & 4 lobes to 2mm x 1mm, fruit a red & purple glabrous drupe to 6mm long x 4mm with persistent calyx above

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