Accession Data
Dischidia major
Common Name: Malayan Urn Vine
Family: Apocynaceae
Synonym(s): Dischidia rafflesiana Wall.
Country of Origin: Trop. Asia to N. Queensland
Description: This species develops bullate leaves which are hollow root-filled structures. The plants also produce normal leaves in addition to the bullate leaves. These bullate leaves are formed when the outer margins of a leaf stop growing while the center of the leaf continues to grow. As time progresses the leaf margins curl under to close the gap which creates a small hole. These bullate leaves serve as ant domiciles and as water collecting/storage organs.
Accession Data
USDA Zone: 11
Accession #: 200300258
Accession Date: 2003-07-14 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 1219
Quantity: 2
Source: Tanya Livshultz - Cornell/Harvard
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: euasterid I
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
SubFamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Marsdenieae
Flowering Data:
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References
- Dischidia major at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Tuesday, July 18, 2017.
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 12 November 2014.
- Griffith, William, On the Structure of the Ascidia and Stomata of Dischidia Rafflesiana, Transactions of The Linnean Society of London, Vol 20, 1851, pg 387-390. Accessed 17 April 2015.
- Image #6 from Wikimedia Commons. Downloaded (CC BY-SA 3.0) 17 April 2015.
- WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Tuesday, July 18, 2017.
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