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Matelea obliqua

Botanic Family
Apocynaceae
Author
(Jacquin) Woodson

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Perennial hairy high-climbing twining herb , hairy stems. Thin villous leaves to 200mm x 160mm. Several-flowered cymes or umbels of green outside, dark purple inside foetid flowers 25mm diameter, puberulent calyx lobes 3mm long, dark greenish-purple corolla to 15mm long, lobes glabrous inside & puberulent outside to 14mm long. Puberulent follicles to 100mm long.

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