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

????? Pachygone cf. dasycarpa Kurz MENISPERMACEAE 4

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Descriptions :
Climber Woody climber, twining or creeping, dioecious; young stems and petioles covered with hairs; leaves spirally arranged, coriaceous when mature, narrowly elliptic, elliptic, ovate, or broadly ovate; lea ves slightly crenate; the apex variable, acute, slightly acuminate, obtuse, rounded, or emarginate, often shortly mucronate; the base acute, obtuse, rounded, or slightly cordate; younger leaves sparsely covered with hairs on upper and lower surface; older leaves glabrous on upper surface and sparsely covered with hairs on lower surface; pistillate flowers axillary, single (only 2 flowers seen); pedicel hairy; 2 small bracteoles at base of pedicel; sepals 6, ± elliptic, hairy outside, green; petals 6, ± elliptic, yellow, each with 2 lateral auricles clasping a staminode; staminodes 6, inflexed, opposite petals; ovaries 3, free, hairy outside; styles 3, flattend, ± bifid distally; staminate inflorescences small, dense cymes, occurring singly or on pseudospikes, axillary (with or without leaf) or extra-axillary, on young or old stems, pseudospikes occurring singly or 2 (or more?) together; inflorescence covered with hairs; staminate flower fragrant, with short, hairy pedicel; 2 small bracteoles subtending flower; sepals 6 (or 9), in 3's, hairy outside and inside; innermost sepals larger than outer sepals, elliptic; petals 6, yellow, ± elliptic, with 2 lateral auricles clasping a stamen, a few hairs outside and on margins; stamens 6, free, opposite petals, filaments widening and curving inward distally into wide connective; anthers introrse, with 2 locules dehiscing transversely; pistillodes 3, connate. (Ours matches the description of P. dasycarpa Kurz in the Flora of Thailand, except ours has staminodes and more variable leaf shape. Ours is also similar to P. hebephylla Miers, known from Java.)