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Tragia tabulaemontana

Botanic Family
Euphorbiaceae
Author
L.J. Gillespie

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Twining monoecious vine with urticating hairs, hirsute or puberulous stems with urticating hairs. Hirsute leaves to 140mm x 55mm with serrate margin. Slender terminal racemes to 90mm long with urticating hairs, sparsely hirsute male flowers with bracts to 1.4mm long & 3 sepals to 1.2mm x 1.2mm, no corolla, female flowers to 1.7mm, with bracts to 1.4mm long & 6 puberulous sepals to 2mm long with urticating hairs. Fruit a woody capsule 3-lobed 4.5mm x 8mm with persistent sepals, covered in urticating hairs

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