Accession Data

Homalocladium platycladum

Common Name: Ribbon Plant, Centipede Plant

Family: Polygonaceae

Synonym(s): Muehlenbeckia platyclada (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.

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 9b-11

Accession #: 198500597

Accession Date: 1985-12-31 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1212

Quantity: 2

Source: Unknown

Provenance: Name currently "unresolved" though data indicate it may be synonymous with Muehlenbeckia platyclados2

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: core eudicots

Order: Caryophyllales

Family: Polygonaceae

SubFamily: Polygonoideae

Tribe: Polygoneae

SubTribe: Reynoutriinae

Flowering Data:

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References

  1. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1 Accessed 19 July 2015.
  3. Homalocladium at Wikipedia. Accessed 19 July 2015.
  4. Homalocladium at Strange Wonderful Things. Accessed 19 July 2015.
  5. Muehlenbeckia platyclada at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Friday, October 05, 2018.

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