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Uvaria micrantha

Botanic Family

Annonaceae

Author

(A. de Candolle) Hooker f. & Thomson

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Queensland
• Western Australia - Australia
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Andaman Islands
• Nicobar Islands - India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Johore
• Kedah
• Laos
• Malacca
• Pahang
• Penang
• Perak
• Sabah - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Rain forest edge
• lowland forest

Flowering Times

• Feb (Papua New Guinea)

Fruiting Times

• Feb (Papua New Guinea)

Large woody climber, red-tomentose stems, glabrescent striate young branches with lenticels. Coriaceous glabrous leaves to 140mm x 45mm or nearly glabrous above & sparsely pubescent beneath. Leaf-opposed or terminal cymes with bracts, purple-brown flowers, sepals to 2.5mm long pubescent outside glabrous within, brownish-olive calyx, brown corolla, greenish-yellow tomentose petals 5mm x 3mm. Glabrous orange fruits to 20mm x 10mm

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• F Inochine
• JAA
• GBS