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Oxera splendida

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

(F. Mueller) Gâteblé & Barrabé

Common Names

• Buku
• Koie-yan
• Latara
• Mumuni
• Pitutu
• Potato Vine

Geographical Habitats

• Queensland - Australia
• NE. Borneo
• Maluku
• Sulawesi - Indonesia
• Sabah - Malaysia
• Bismarck Archipelago - Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Natural Habitats

• Montane areas
• rain forest
• secondary rain forest
• creekside
• coastal
• riverside
• swampland.

Flowering Times

• May
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep
• Nov (New Guinea)

Fruiting Times

Evergreen glabrous large liana, shrub or tree with young parts glabrescent. Glabrous or glabrescent leaves 230mm x 130mm. Fragrant 50mm white flowers, yellow in throat in many-flowered terminal & axillary corymbs or cymes to 150mm long somewhat puberulent, sometimes cauliflorous with bracts to 5mm long. Flowers with 2-3 lobed calyx to 25mm long with lobes 8mm wide, corolla tube to 40mm x 10mm with four 50mm long lobes. Creamy berry or 4-lobed drupe 65mm x 40mm externally glabrous or minutely puberulous.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Jones & Gray 1977
• Wrigley & Fagg 1979
• net
• Bodkin
• Botanicus
• Ridley
• Fedde
• JAA
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew