Desmos cochinchinensis
Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 1: 352. 1790. Unona cochinchinensis
(Lour.) DC., Prodr. 1: 91. 1824. Unona desmos Raeusch., Nomencl. ed. 3. 161. 1797;
Hook. f. & Thomson in Fl. Brit. India 1: 59. 1872.
Climbers or scandent shrubs; young branches minutely rufous pubescent, glabrous
with age. Leaves oblong to elliptic-oblong, rounded at base, acute to slightly obtuse at
apex, 12 -
22 x 4 -
8 cm, thinly coriaceous, pubescent beneath and midrib above when
young, glabrous with age; lateral nerves 12 - 14 pairs; petioles 6 -
10 mm long, pubescent
when young. Flowers ca 5 mm long, fragrant, solitary, extra-axillary, pendulous; pedicels
slender, 10 -
15 cm long, glabrous or minutely appressed pubescent; bracts 2, submedian,
linear, ca 4 mm long. Sepals 3, free, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, ca 7 x 3 mm, minutely
appressed pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Petals 6 (3 + 3), obovate to ovate-lanceolate, longitudinally 3 -
6-nerved; outer ones 5 -
6 x 2.5 -
3 cm; inner ones shorter and
narrower, greenish yellow to yellow, pink at base inside, broadly ovate, slightly appressed
pubescent, thickly coriaceous. Stamens numerous, ca 2 mm long; connectives convex
on the top. Carpels many, oblong, 2 -
3 mm long, brownish hirsute; stigma clavate with
U-shaped groove. Ripe carpels numerous, glabrous, moniliform with 2 - 5 joints,
terminal one apiculate; stalks 7 -
18 mm long.
Fl. June - July; Fr. Sept. - Oct.
Distrib. India: Evergreen forests. Assam and Manipur.
Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia.
Fl. June - July; Fr. Sept. - Oct.
Distrib. India: Evergreen forests. Assam and Manipur.
Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia.