Pachygone ovata (Poir.) Diels
J.M. Garg
From: Lalithamba Avadhanam <alali...@gmail.com>
Date: 3 February 2018 at 17:47
Subject: Re: Fwd: Species, genera & family pages of Menispermaceae are now with images
To:
Plant name: Pachygone ovata (Poir.) Diels, Pflanzenr. IV.94(Heft 46): 243. 1910.
Ver.name:
Pedda dusari (Tel.).
Family: Menispermaceae
Description:
Evergreen woody climbers, with long drooping branches, stem diam. up to 10 cm. Leaves alternate; lamina simple ovate, 4-15 × 2-9 cm, base cordate, margin entire, apex obtuse, coriaceous, puberulous. Plants dioecious. Flowers fragrant, 3-merous, creamy white, 3-4mm across, in 5-10 cm long axillary racemes or panicles. Calyx lobes 6, in 2 whorls. Corolla lobes 6, base auricled, clasping the stamina filament. Male flowers in 5-15 cm long drooping panicles. Stamens 6, free, incurved, included; anthers subglobose. Female flowers in 4-6cm long racemes. Carpels 3, stigma sessile projecting at right angles to the axis of the carpel. Drupe reniform, 0.6-1cm across, purple when ripe, with persistent stylar scar.
Habitat & location: Common in dry deciduous forests up to an altitude of 500m. Photographed at Rapur, Penchalkona.
Flowering period: February-May
Thank you--
J.M.Garg
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