Tragia praetervisa
Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr in Rheedea 16: 23, ff. 2 - 3 Fam. Euphorb. India 183. 2007. T. hispida sensu auct. plur., non Willd., 1805:
Gamble, Fl. Madras 2(7): 1332. 1925 (repr. ed. 2: 932. 1957); Ramamoorthy in C.J.Saldanha & Nicolson, Fl. Hassan Dist. 349. 1976; A.N.Londhe in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. Maharashtra State:
Dicot 2: 904. 2001. T. involucrata auct. non L., 1753: Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 270. 1861, p. p.,
quoad CP 2100 et CP 2951. T. muelleriana var. cordata sensu Bennet, Fl. Howrah Dist. 210.
1976, non (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm., 1919. T. muelleriana var. unicolor auct non (Müll.Arg.)
Pax & K. Hoffm., 1919: S.M.Almeida, Fl. Savantwadi 1: 395. 1990, p. p.
Mar.: Kach-kuile, Kulthi.
Herbs or herbaceous climbers, up to 5 m high, monoecious or dioecious; young shoots tomentellous or scattered hirsute; stem and branches scattered hirsute or hispid, glabrous in age. Leaves ovate, cordate-ovate, ovate-oblong to ovate-elliptic, 3 – 18 x 1 – 6.5 cm, cordate or narrowly so at base, serrate (to serrulate) or dentate (to denticulate) along margins, caudate or acuminate at apex, membranous to thinly chartaceous, scattered hispid above and beneath (mainly on nerves), 3-nerved at base; lateral nerves 3 – 6 per side above the basal; petioles 0.5 – 5 (-7.5) cm long, glabrescent in age; stipules subulate, ca 4 mm long, caducous. Racemes terminal or leaf-opposed, 3 – 12 cm long, unisexual or bisexual; peduncles 0.5 – 3 cm long. Male flowers: pedicels ca 1 mm long; sepals ovate to suborbicular, ca 1.2 m across; stamens 3; filaments ca 0.4 mm long, slightly united at base; anthers widely oblong to suborbicular, ca 0.3 mm across. Female flowers: pedicels 0.5 – 1 mm long; sepals 2 – 5 x 1 – 3 mm; ovary ca 2 mm in diam., hirsute or hispid; style 1.5 – 2.5 mm long, trifid and recurved at apex. Fruits depressed, ca 3 x 8 mm, deeply 3-lobed, scattered hispid; fruiting sepals 5 – 10 x 2 – 5 mm (including lobes); main body of sepals linear to narrowly oblong or spathulate scattered fulvous puberulous or hispid to glabrous outside, glabrous inside; lobes of sepals 4 – 8 per side, linear to narrow oblong, 1.5 – 3 (- 5) mm long, often arching, densely fulvous hispid.
Herbs or herbaceous climbers, up to 5 m high, monoecious or dioecious; young shoots tomentellous or scattered hirsute; stem and branches scattered hirsute or hispid, glabrous in age. Leaves ovate, cordate-ovate, ovate-oblong to ovate-elliptic, 3 – 18 x 1 – 6.5 cm, cordate or narrowly so at base, serrate (to serrulate) or dentate (to denticulate) along margins, caudate or acuminate at apex, membranous to thinly chartaceous, scattered hispid above and beneath (mainly on nerves), 3-nerved at base; lateral nerves 3 – 6 per side above the basal; petioles 0.5 – 5 (-7.5) cm long, glabrescent in age; stipules subulate, ca 4 mm long, caducous. Racemes terminal or leaf-opposed, 3 – 12 cm long, unisexual or bisexual; peduncles 0.5 – 3 cm long. Male flowers: pedicels ca 1 mm long; sepals ovate to suborbicular, ca 1.2 m across; stamens 3; filaments ca 0.4 mm long, slightly united at base; anthers widely oblong to suborbicular, ca 0.3 mm across. Female flowers: pedicels 0.5 – 1 mm long; sepals 2 – 5 x 1 – 3 mm; ovary ca 2 mm in diam., hirsute or hispid; style 1.5 – 2.5 mm long, trifid and recurved at apex. Fruits depressed, ca 3 x 8 mm, deeply 3-lobed, scattered hispid; fruiting sepals 5 – 10 x 2 – 5 mm (including lobes); main body of sepals linear to narrowly oblong or spathulate scattered fulvous puberulous or hispid to glabrous outside, glabrous inside; lobes of sepals 4 – 8 per side, linear to narrow oblong, 1.5 – 3 (- 5) mm long, often arching, densely fulvous hispid.
KEY TO THE VARIETIES
| 1a. Plants monoecious; inflorescences bisexual | 6.1. praetervisa |
| b. Plants dioecious; inflorescences unisexual | 6.2. unicolor |
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