Desmos chinensis Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. 1: 352. 1790. (Syn: Artabotrys esquirolii H. Léveillé; Unona chinensis (Loureiro)
Candolle; U. discolor Vahl.) as per Flora of China
Scandent shrubs; branchlets pubescent when young, glabrous later. Leaves alternate, elliptic, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, truncate, rarely slightly cordate at base, acute or acuminate at apex, 6-9(-18) x 2-4.5(-7) cm, membranous, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; lateral nerves 7-12 pairs; petioles ca 7 mm long, pubescent. Flowers extra-axillary or leaf-opposed, greenish-yellow, fragrant; pedicels ca 5.5 cm long, slender, pubescent; bracts ovate, in the middle of pedicel. Sepals ovate, acuminate, ca 7 x 5 mm, pubescent. Outer petals elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 3-8.5 x 1-1.5 cm, pubescent; the inner oblong-lanceolate, acute, 2-3.2 x 0.8-1 cm, pubescent. Receptacle convex, brown-pubescent. Stamens many, oblong, ca 1.5 mm long; connectives obtuse. Carpels oblong, ca 2 mm long, densely brown-tomentose; stigmas clavate, grooved. Fruitlets 1-1.4 cm long, ovoid, beaked; stalks to 1 cm long. Flowering and fruiting: April-October Semi-evergreen forests
North East India to Malesia
White-Red Pods: I need your advice for the id of the following plant:
A shrub, 1-2 m tall. Flowers not seen. Loc. Bogor Botanical Gardens. This looks like Desmos chinensis (Annonaceae). Check these links http://www0.hku.hk/ecology/porcupine/por29gif/desmos-fr.jpg http://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/desmos_chinensis.htm I agree Desmos chinensis QUERY :: Status of Desmos lawii (Hook.f. & Thomson) Saff. : 3 posts by 2 authors. Please help with taxonomical and ecological status of Desmos lawii (Hook.f. & Thomson) Saff. At The Plant List (2010). Version 1, Desmos lawii (Hook.f. & Thomson) Saff. is considered as synonym of Desmos chinensis Lour. ... at lesser confidence level (the status is yet under review of World Checklist of Selected Plant Families) Referring to paper (A synopsis of Annonaceae in Indian subcontinent: Its distribution and endemism) published by Subir Ranjan Kundu, ex-research Fellow of BSI, am inclined to believe it as a separate species - with distribution confined to southern Western Ghats of India, and Sri Lanka. I am also supporting Mr Subir's view in treating them separately. Both are entirely different. Plant list is a provisional one and do not pay much attention to it. You can treat Desmos lawii as a separate species or as a variety under D. chinensis (D. chinensis var lawii) as in Flora of India by Debika Mitra. References:
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