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Oxyceros bispinosus

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Griffith) Tirvengadum

Common Names

• Keri-keri (Tagbanua)
• Akar Seburus (Malaysia)
• Akar Kukulang (Malaysia)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Johore
• Kelantan
• Malacca
• Negeri Sembilan
• Pahang
• Penang
• Perak
• Selangor
• Terengganu - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane areas
• montane forest
• coastal forest
• rain forest
• swamp forest

Flowering Times

• Feb-May (Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

Scandent shrub or tree or lofty spiny liana to 8m, stems & branches with paired stout recurved thorns to 12mm long, glabrous branches. Glabrous coriaceous leaves to 200mm x 85mm. Axillary & terminal panicled cymes or corymbs 60mm x 60mm with bracts & bracteoles, flowers with persistent bracts, white corolla to 35mm long, pubescent inside with lobes to 5mm long, sweetly fragrant, pubescent calyx & corolla, calyx to 10mm long, calyx tube with 5-7 teeth to 2mm long, glabrous corolla tube to 25mm x 2mm with 5 lobes to 12mm x 4mm. Glabrous grey-green berry to 12mm x 10mm, infructescence to 40mm long.

Further References

• Elmer
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• JAA
• GBS
• Merrill
• Kew