Gnetum urens

Common Name: Bell Bird's Heart

Family: Gnetaceae

Synonym(s): Gnetum woodsonianum (Markgr.) Won

Country of Origin: southern tropical America

Description: Slender lianas. Stems when cut exuding cream-colored exudate; twigs smooth, light gray to tan. Leaf-blade thin, chartaceous to rarely subcoriaceous, elliptic, to 12 X 6 cm, abruptly deflexed (in living plants) and acuminate to acute at apex, unequally obtuse at base, yellow-green, the adaxial surface silky and finely striate, the abaxial surface dull and sculptured with narrow prominent primary and secondary veins and obscure tertiary veins. Pollen-bearing structures sparingly branched, the ultimate units with short internodes of 1-2 mm between bract collars. Microsporophylls barely exserted from enclosing collar. Ovule-bearing branches rarely branched, the internode between bract collars to 10 mm long. Mature seeds yellow to red, oblongoid to slightly obovoid, often with a basal knob-like ring, sharply mucronate at apex, 35-40 X 18-20 mm, outer layer thin and fibrous, inner layer chartaceous. Seeds (May, August); relatively common in forest canopy. ⁴

Accession #: 201800036

Accession Date: 2018-05-10

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3316

Quantity: 1

Source: Paul Cooper - Cornell

Provenance:

Received as Gnetum woodsonianum.
Name changed per PlantList 10May2018.

Division: Gnetophyta

Class: Gnetopsida

Subclass: Gnetidae

Order: Gnetales

Family: Gnetaceae