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Chilocarpus beccarianus

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Species of plant

Chilocarpus beccarianus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Chilocarpus
Species: C. beccarianus
Binomial name
Chilocarpus beccarianus
Pierre

Chilocarpus beccarianus is a plant in the genus Chilocarpus, in the family Apocynaceae. It is native to Borneo. It is an accepted species, first described by Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre and originally published in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris, n.s., 1: 101 (1898).

It is a large woody climber which grows up to 15 metres tall. Its branchlets are glabrous, rarely puberulent. Its leaves are described as: "Inflorescence terminal and axillary in uppermost leaf axils (sometimes these uppermost leaves greatly reduced in size), forming a terminal panicle mostly longer than subtending leaves, occasionally shorter, 3.2-13.7 cm long, lax, puberulent to completely glabrous except occasionally for a few hairs on bracts; Stamens inserted at 2-3.1 mm from corolla base which is 0.3-0.4 of tube length." It has fusiform fruit with slight constrictions, measuring 5.5-10.5 by 1.5-2.7 cm. Its seeds are large.

References

  1. "Chilocarpus beccarianus Pierre | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". powo.science.kew.org. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  2. "Chilocarpus beccarianus Pierre — The Plant List". www.theplantlist.org. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  3. "Chilocarpus beccarianus | Flora Malesiana". portal.cybertaxonomy.org. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
Taxon identifiers
Chilocarpus beccarianus


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