Accession #: 198500597
Accession Date: 1985-12-31
Common name: Ribbon Plant, Centipede Plant
Family: Polygonaceae
Synonym(s): <i>Muehlenbeckia platyclada</i> (F. Muell.) Meisn.
Country of Origin: Solomon Islands, Papau New Guinea
Description: [syn. Muelenbeckia platyclada (F.J. Muell.) Meissn.]
Centipede Plant, Tapeworm Plant, Ribbonbush
One species in genus, a shrub, native to the Solomon Islands; stems flat, articulated, striate, usually leafless in flowering stage; leaves lanceolate, 0.5 to 2.5 inches long, often lobed at the base; flowers small, greenish, in little sessile clusters at alternate joints, calyx deeply 5-parted, stamens 8, stigmas 3; fruit an achene, triangular, smooth, enclosed by enlarged, deep-red or pruplish calyx.
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USDA Zone: 9b-11
Source: Unknown
Provenance:
Name currently "unresolved" though data indicate it may be synonymous with Muehlenbeckia platyclados2
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