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Accession Data:

Homalocladium platycladum (F. J. Muell.) L. H. Bailey

  • Common Name: Ribbon Plant, Centipede Plant
  • Family: Polygonaceae Juss.
  • Synonym(s): Muehlenbeckia platyclada (F. Muell.) Meisn.

  • Country of Origin: Solomon Islands, Papau New Guinea

  • 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 petiole or a stigma, when the style is absent.">sessile clusters at alternate joints, calyx deeply 5-parted, stamens 8, stigmas 3; fruit an indehiscent fruit, e.g. in the genus Ranunculus">achene, triangular, smooth, enclosed by enlarged, deep-red or pruplish calyx.

  • USDA Zone: 9b-11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 198500597
  • Source: Unknown
  • Provenance: Name currently "unresolved" though data indicate it may be synonymous with Muehlenbeckia platyclados2
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1985
  • Bench: 1212 - AUS:Ground Bed 2 NW
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 10-05-2024

Classification:

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

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References (internal):

  • Type Species
  • Cladode (phylloclade)
  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • EEB 3203 - Developmental Plant Morphology
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: New Guinea / Solomon Is.

References (external):

  1. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1 Accessed 19 July 2015.
  3. Homalocladium at Wikipedia. Accessed 19 July 2015.
  4. Homalocladium at Strange Wonderful Things. Accessed 19 July 2015.
  5. Muehlenbeckia platyclada at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Friday, October 05, 2018.

data regenerated on Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:00:55 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

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Homalocladium platycladum

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Current Accessions in the Polygonaceae

Subfamily Eriogonoideae

  • Antigonon leptopus
  • Coccoloba uvifera

Subfamily Polygonoideae
Tribe Polygoneae

  • Reynoutriinae: Fallopia aubertii
  • Reynoutriinae: Homalocladium platycladum
  • Reynoutriinae: Muehlenbeckia complexa

Subfamily Polygonoideae
Tribe Rumiceae

  • Rheum rhabarbarum
  • Rumex acetosa
W/C = Wild Collected
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