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family Rubiaceae
Randia longiloba Hemsley
Shrub
or small tree; stems spiny, dimorphic (long shoots and short shoots),
terminal branchlets often pendant; leaves often clustered on axillary
short shoots, opposite, simple, elliptic, base acute to attenuate,
margin entire, apex acuminate; flowers nearly sessile on the short
shoots; corolla white, the tube 2 cm long, with 5 spreading lobes;
fruit globose, like a small calabash, but with persistent calyx
at the apex.
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Shrub
or small tree; stems spiny, dimorphic (long shoots and short shoots),
terminal branchlets often pendant; leaves often clustered on axillary
short shoots, opposite, simple, elliptic, base acute to attenuate,
margin entire, apex acuminate; flowers nearly sessile on the short
shoots; corolla white, the tube 2 cm long, with 5 spreading lobes;
fruit globose, like a small calabash, but with persistent calyx
at the apex.
