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Oxera amicorum

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

(Seemann) Gâteblé & Barrabé

Common Names

• Pigeon's Mouthful
• Filitavatio (Samoa)
• Mamagi (Samoa)
• Fue
• Fue Vai
• Mama Lupe
• Naosokoño (Solomons)
• Wakorovudi (Fiji)
• Wavudi (Fiji)
• Wavundi (Fiji)
• Ngakawa
• Wakarovungi
• Wa Koro Vundi
• Wa Kuru Vundi
• Wa Vatu
• Wa Vundi
• Wa Vatu (Fiji)

Geographical Habitats

• Fiji
• Bismarck Archipelago - Papua New Guinea
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Vanuatu

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• secondary forest
• forest
• thickets
• coastal
• coastal rain forest
• forest margins
• shrubland

Flowering Times

• Aug (Solomon Islands)
• Jun-Apr (Samoa)
• Feb-Nov (Fiji)

Fruiting Times

• Aug (Solomon Islands)
• Jan
• Mar
• Aug
• Oct (Samoa)
• Jun-Aug & Oct-Dec (Fiji)

Large climbing shrub, tree, liana to 15m becoming glabrescent to 8m+. Leaves furfuraceous when young, glabrous when mature, coriaceous, leaves to 280mm x 150mm. Axillary & terminal panicles to 150mm long, of many-flowered cymes, with bracteoles to 25mm x 10mm, flowers may be scented, flowers with bracteoles to 15mm long, coriaceous, glabrous 4-lobed white calyx, lobes to 6mm x 10mm, white or cream corolla to 60mm long with 4 glabrous lobes to 10mm x 10mm, tube to 15mm long. Large glabrous fleshy drupe 120mm x 50mm maturing orange-red or red with white dots , whole plant slightly aromatic.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Phytologia
• JPS
• JAA
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew