Ancistrocladus heyneanus Wallich ex Graham (ANCISTROCLADIACEAE)
Description: Climbing shrubs characterized by their woody hooked branches. Leaves alternate, usually crowded at apex, oblanceolate or obovate, up to 20 x 6.5 cm, narrowed at base, acute at apex, gland-pitted. Flowers bisexual, minute, in dichotomously branched axillary or subterminal panicles, yellowish green. Calyx lobes 5, oblong, enlarged, rounded at apex, lobes in fruits spathulate, with 3 longer lobes and 2 shorter ones, gland – pitted. Petals 5, ovate – oblong, up to 8 x 4 mm, white. Stamens 10. Ovary unilocular, 1-ovuled; styles 3. Fruit a dry indehiscent nut, 5-winged, 1-seeded. Seeds globose, somewhat depressed above, corrugated.
Flowering: March – April
Fruiting: June – July
Distribution: India: Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Endemic.
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