Phytocrene bracteata Wall., a woody liana from the lowland forests of mainland South‐East Asia from Thailand to Borneo and the Philippines, is described and illustrated. The species is remarkable for the heteromorphic leaves, the bracteate ‘foxtail’ staminate inflorescences, and the small, spherical pistillate inflorescences which enlarge considerably during fruiting, forming dense heads of bristly hairy compound fruits the size of a small football.
Project(s)
Priority 4: Accelerated Taxonomy
Journal title
Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Article number
curt.70004
Publisher
Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew..
