Dischidia kerrii Kidyoo & Suddee

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Scientific name

Dischidia kerrii
Kidyoo & Suddee

Clade/Class

Mesangiosperms

Group

Spermatophytes

Family

Apocynaceae

Genus

Dischidia

Clade/Subclass

Asterids

Order

Gentianales

Sub Family

Asclepiadoideae

Tribe

_

Epiphytic herb with white latex in all part. Stems and branches hanging or twining. Leaves opposite; blade fleshy coriaceous, rigid, ovate or elliptic to oblanceolate, margin entire, base cuneate to obtuse, bearing a small gland on the adaxial surface, apex acute to short acuminate, glabrous. Inflorescence sessile to subsessile, extra-axillary, 1–15-flowered, fragrant. Sepals ovate, pinkish white to reddish brown, acute to obtuse at apex, bearing a minute gland inside each lobe sinus. Corolla urceolate; corolla tube inflated at base, creamy or yellowish to pinkish white, the distal portion of tube with oval-shaped depressions between lobes, throat with a ring of white hairs; corolla lobes, ovate-triangular, glabrous, pinkish white to purple with hyaline margins. Gynostegium conical in outline, subsessile; Staminal corona lobes reduced to a minute, pimple-like projection with a truncate apex, yellowish white. Pollinaria 5, erect, ellipsoid, yellow. Follicle usually solitary by abortion, fusiform, green to greenish brown. Seed oblong; coma white.

Habitat

Endemic. Grows on limestone or sandstone rock in open areas of dry deciduous dipterocarp forest and mixed deciduous forest, at 600–800 m a.s.l.

Locality

Pa Hin Ngam National Park; Chaiyaphum Province

Date of collection

12/02/1994

Type specimen

S. Suddee 255 (holotype: BKF!,isotype: BCU!)