The World Flora Online

Ovary subglobose, c. 1 mm. long, with a ring of stiff erect hairs at the apex; style, clavuncle and stigma 4–5 mm. long.

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Vigorous liane climbing to 30 m.; stem terete, slash pink with white milky sap, bark brown, almost smooth.

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Fruit globose, up to 6 cm. in diameter when ripe, yellow or orange with white or orange pulp, edible.

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Young branches glabrous, lenticels conspicuous, small, circular, light-coloured, numerous.

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Leaves membranous, not strongly discolorous; petiole 8–14 mm. long, glabrous; lamina 7–19·5 x 4–9·5 cm., elliptic or ovate, rounded or obtuse at apex, rounded to subcordate at base; both surfaces glabrous, with lateral and tertiary nerves in relief; midrib raised below, impressed, level or slightly raised above; vein reticulation weakly scalariform.

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Tendrils common.

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Inflorescences terminal many-flowered paniculate cymes, forming large dense heads or lax and tendrillous; axes glabrous or tomentose.

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Calyx 2·5–3 mm. long, lobes strongly imbricate, free to base, oblong, rounded at apex, dorsally glabrous or tomentose, minutely ciliate.

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Flowers large, white, attractive, very sweet-scented.

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Stamens inserted just below the middle of the corolla tube; anthers c. 2·75 mm. long, subsessile.

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Corolla tube 18–24 mm. long, slender, slightly inflated just below the middle, outer surface completely glabrous or pubescent, especially towards the apex, inner surface pilose; corolla lobes 16–30 x 3–9 mm., oblong-elliptic or obovate-elliptic, rounded at apex, minutely and irregularly ciliate, lower surface glabrous or pubescent towards the base, upper surface glabrous or shortly pilose near the base.

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Leaves petiolate; blade ovate or elliptic, 4.5–24 cm long, 3.4–12 cm wide, rounded, obtuse or rarely shortly acuminate at the apex, oblique, rounded or subcordate at the base; petiole 7.5–20 mm long.

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Liana up to 20 m long; trunk up to 15 cm in diameter; wood reddish or yellow; bark rough, scaly, often fissured.

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Fruit yellow or orange, (sub-)globose, up to 11 cm in diameter; pericarp 1–2.4 cm thick; very young fruits hairy; seeds whitish, yellow to brown, up to 1 cm in diameter.

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Fig. 10 (p. 33).

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Inflorescence a many-flowered congested cyme; peduncle 2–6(–32) cm long; pedicels 1–7 mm long.

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Flowers white with a yellow or orange throat; sepals 1.7–4 mm long, 1–2 mm wide; tube greenish, 16–34 mm long; lobes 19–41 mm long, 4–12 mm wide; ovary with a ring of white stiff hairs at the apex, ovules ± 50; stigmoid apex up to 2.2 mm long.

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