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Uvaria Grandiflora Flower
Uvaria grandiflora, The species is native to China (Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan), Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, where it grows in the open forests up to about 1000 m of altitude.
Uvaria Grandiflora Flower
Uvaria grandiflora (PROSEA)
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The Uvaria grandiflora Roxb. ex Hornem. (1819) is an evergreen sarmentose shrub, up to 10 m tall, with the young branches covered by a rusty coloured tomentum. The leaves, on a 0,5-1 cm long petiole, are alternate, simple, entire, obovate-oblong with pointed apex and prominent venations, 7-25 cm long and 4-10 cm broad, of intense green colour, pubescent below.
Solitary flowers, rarely 2-3, hermaphroditic, from the opposite side of the leaf on a 0,5-5 cm long pedicel, of 7-11 cm of diameter, with calyx having 3 ovate lobes with obtuse to acute apex, about 2 cm long and 3 cm broad, of yellowish green colour, and 6 petals, three internal obovate-oblong and three ovate external ones, of almost similar size, about 4 cm long and 3 cm broad, thick and slightly villous, of vermillion red colour turning, with the time, purple, cream yellow at the base. The numerous stamina form, together with the pistils, a compact globe at the centre of the flower.
Synonyms: Unona grandiflora DC. (1824); Uvaria purpurea Blume (1825); Uvaria platypetala Champ. ex Benth. (1851); Uvaria rhodantha Hance (1851).
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