Morinda pandurifolia
Shrubs or scandent shrubs; young branches terete, bark smooth, greenish, with sparse and short hairs; older branches subterete, bark smooth, brownish to grey. Leaves elliptic, lanceolate, oblong or fiddle-like shaped, 13.5 by 315 cm, coriaceous; base cuneate; margin entire; apex acute or acuminate; upper leaf surface dark green, lower leaf surface greenish, with sparse and short hairs on both surfaces; lateral veins 812 pairs, venation prominent; drying dark brown; petiole 13 cm long, glabrous or with sparse and short hairs. Stipules triangular, acute to acuminate, connate at base, usually caducous. Inflorescence axillary; capitula solitary; peduncle at anthesis sessile or up to 4 mm long. Flowers 56-merous, fragrant, bisexual; heterostylous; calyx tube basally connate, with sparse and short hairs; calyx lobes obtuse or triangular; corolla hypocrateriform, white or greenish, corolla tube 1.51.8 cm, inside glabrous or with sparse and short hairs, outside puberulous; corolla lobes oblong, 3-5.5 by 1514.5 mm, inside glabrous, outside puberulous or with spares and short hairs. Stamens included or exserted in the corolla tube, attached to the tube by a short filament; filaments linear, 14 mm long; anthers yellow, oblong, 5.56.5 mm long; style white, 3-5 mm long in brevistylous flowers, 810 mm long in longistylous flower, glabrous. Ovary 2-locular; stigma bilobed, 12 mm long, included or exserted in the corolla tube. Infructescences globose, subglobose or oblique, with 2350 fruitlets; fruitlet with sparse and short hairs, green. Pyrene ellipsoid or ovoid, 4.56.5 by 711.5 mm, testa rough.
Indo-China.
In dry evergreen and deciduous dipterocarp forests, stream banks, alt. 0150 m. Flowering period: DecemberApril.