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Polygonaceae

Subfamily Polygonoideae

W/C = Wild Collected
Homalocladium platycladum (F. J. Muell.) L. H. Bailey

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  • Common Name: Ribbon Plant, Centipede Plant
  • Family: Polygonaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: Solomon Islands, Papau New Guinea
  • Habitat:

  • Description: [syn. Muelenbeckia platyclada (F.J. Muell.) Meissn.]

    Centipede Plant, Tapeworm Plant, Ribbonbush

    One species in genus, a shrub, native to the Solomon Islands; stems flat, articulated, striate, usually leafless in flowering stage; leaves lanceolate, 0.5 to 2.5 inches long, often lobed at the base; flowers small, greenish, in little sessile clusters at alternate joints, calyx deeply 5-parted, stamens 8, stigmas 3; fruit an achene, triangular, smooth, enclosed by enlarged, deep-red or pruplish calyx.

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Accession Data:

  • Accession # 198500597
  • Source: Unknown
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1985
  • Bench: 1215 - AUS:Phillipines-Polynesia C
  • Qty: 1 confirmed on 10-27-2009
Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: core eudicots
  • Order: Caryophyllales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Polygonaceae
  • SubFamily: Polygonoideae
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:
References:

  1. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976

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