Local Name: Botanical Name: Family: Found in Zone No.

???? Stemona sp. STEMONACEAE 6

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Descriptions :
Vine, with glabrous stems; leaves alternate, glabrous, petiolate, ovate, palmately veined; apex acuminate; margins entire; blade to length of greater than 14 cm; inflorescence axillary, flower solitary (always?); pedicel articulated with peduncle, with a small, acute bract subtending pedicel; tepals 4, white and light green, narrowly ovate, long acuminate, to a length of greater than 6 cm., with prominent parallel veins; stamens 4; filaments connate into short, basal tube, free distally; each anther with wing on either side and long, slender, tapering distal appendage; anthers fused by filiform appendages at top of anthers; ovary small, obclavate.