Vasilis Teodoridis:
Ancistrocladaceae | Ancistrocladus
1. Ancistrocladus tectorius (Loureiro) Merrill; Lingnan Sci. J. 6: 329. 1928.
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Bembix tectoria Loureiro; Fl. Cochinch. 1: 282. 1790; Ancistrocladus carallioides Craib; A. cochinchinensis Gagnepain; A. extensus Wallich ex Planchon; A. hainanensis Hayata; A. harmandii Gagnepain; A. pinangianus Wallich ex Planchon.
Juvenile plants unknown but probably erect. Adult stems climbing to 20 m high; lateral branches with recurved to spiraling hooks. Stipules tiny; mostly caducous with saddlelike scars on branches; leaves at branchlet apices elliptic to obovate; 7-38(-50.2) x 2.1-9.3(-11.7) cm; leathery; both surfaces frequently with small; white; orbicular pits; base attenuate and decurrent; apex rounded or rounded-obtuse; rarely acute; midvein prominent abaxially; impressed adaxially; lateral and reticulate tertiary veins tenuous; slightly prominent on both surfaces. Inflorescence lax to congested; paniculate; lateral among leaves at apices of branches; bracts triangular to ovate; 0.2-2.4 x 0.2-1.5 mm; abaxially eglandular or with 1 or 2 circular glands; margin fimbriate-erose; apex acute. Pedicel 0.3-3 mm. Sepals 5; at base shortly decurrent on ovary; suborbicular to elliptic-oblong; slightly unequal; 3.2-5.5 mm; outside eglandular or with 1-4 shallowly cupular glands below middle; inside with white orbicular small pits near base; apex rounded. Petals 5; convolute; connate basally; suborbicular to obliquely elliptic; 5-6 mm; apex acute; usually involute. Stamens in 1 whorl; 5 longer than others; filaments wider basally; dimorphic: shorter ones 0.3-1.2 mm; longer ones 1.1-2 mm. Ovary fully inferior; styles 3; erect; ca. 1 mm; stigmas ca. 0.2 mm. Nut red; obconic; sides 5-ridged by decurrent margins of accrescent sepals; 5-9 mm; 5-10 mm in diam.; persistent sepals spreading; narrowly oblong to spatulate; unequal; larger 3 sepals 3-5.6 x 1-1.7(-2.5) cm; smaller 2 sepals 2-3(-4) x 0.5-1.2(-1.9) cm; veined; apex rounded. Seeds subglobose. Fl. Apr-Jun; fr. Jun [fl. and fr. year-round outside of China].
Evergreen tropical forests in valleys and on slopes; 500-700 m [sea level to 1600 m outside of China]. Hainan [Cambodia; India (Andaman and Nicobar Islands); Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Singapore; Thailand; Vietnam].
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Ancistrocladaceae | Ancistrocladus
1. Ancistrocladus tectorius (Loureiro) Merrill; Lingnan Sci. J. 6: 329. 1928.
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Bembix tectoria Loureiro; Fl. Cochinch. 1: 282. 1790; Ancistrocladus carallioides Craib; A. cochinchinensis Gagnepain; A. extensus Wallich ex Planchon; A. hainanensis Hayata; A. harmandii Gagnepain; A. pinangianus Wallich ex Planchon.
Juvenile plants unknown but probably erect. Adult stems climbing to 20 m high; lateral branches with recurved to spiraling hooks. Stipules tiny; mostly caducous with saddlelike scars on branches; leaves at branchlet apices elliptic to obovate; 7-38(-50.2) x 2.1-9.3(-11.7) cm; leathery; both surfaces frequently with small; white; orbicular pits; base attenuate and decurrent; apex rounded or rounded-obtuse; rarely acute; midvein prominent abaxially; impressed adaxially; lateral and reticulate tertiary veins tenuous; slightly prominent on both surfaces. Inflorescence lax to congested; paniculate; lateral among leaves at apices of branches; bracts triangular to ovate; 0.2-2.4 x 0.2-1.5 mm; abaxially eglandular or with 1 or 2 circular glands; margin fimbriate-erose; apex acute. Pedicel 0.3-3 mm. Sepals 5; at base shortly decurrent on ovary; suborbicular to elliptic-oblong; slightly unequal; 3.2-5.5 mm; outside eglandular or with 1-4 shallowly cupular glands below middle; inside with white orbicular small pits near base; apex rounded. Petals 5; convolute; connate basally; suborbicular to obliquely elliptic; 5-6 mm; apex acute; usually involute. Stamens in 1 whorl; 5 longer than others; filaments wider basally; dimorphic: shorter ones 0.3-1.2 mm; longer ones 1.1-2 mm. Ovary fully inferior; styles 3; erect; ca. 1 mm; stigmas ca. 0.2 mm. Nut red; obconic; sides 5-ridged by decurrent margins of accrescent sepals; 5-9 mm; 5-10 mm in diam.; persistent sepals spreading; narrowly oblong to spatulate; unequal; larger 3 sepals 3-5.6 x 1-1.7(-2.5) cm; smaller 2 sepals 2-3(-4) x 0.5-1.2(-1.9) cm; veined; apex rounded. Seeds subglobose. Fl. Apr-Jun; fr. Jun [fl. and fr. year-round outside of China].
Evergreen tropical forests in valleys and on slopes; 500-700 m [sea level to 1600 m outside of China]. Hainan [Cambodia; India (Andaman and Nicobar Islands); Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Singapore; Thailand; Vietnam].