Aganosma cymosa (Aganosma cymosa)
Description
Aganosma cymosa is a liana that can grow up to 10 metres in length,pale brownish tomentose.Leaf-stalks are 1-2 cm,leaf blade broadly ovate or orbicular,5-16 x 4-12 cm,base rounded or obtuse,apex acuminate or obtuse,rarely retuse,lateral veins 8-10 pairs.Flowers are borne in many-flowered clusters at branch ends,which are carried on stalks up to 6 cm.Bracts and bracteoles are very narrowly elliptic,0.9-1.1 cm.Flower-stalks are about 5 mm.Calyx with several glands inside margin of sepals;sepals very narrowly elliptic,0.9-1.1 cm,pubescent on both surfaces.Flowers are white,minutely tomentose outside,glabrous at throat;tube shorter than sepals,6-7 mm;lobes oblong,as long as tube.Disc longer than ovary.Ovary pubescent at apex.Follicles 2,cylindric,to 30 X 0.8-1.2 cm,yellow hirsute.Seeds oblong,1-2 cm X ca.5 mm,coma 2-4.5 cm.It is native to China (Guangxi,Yunnan),Bangladesh,India,Sri Lanka,and Indochina (Cambodia,Laos,Thailand,Vietnam).
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Gentianales
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Family: Apocynaceae
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Genus: Aganosma
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