{ NATIVE SPECIES }
{ NATIVE SPECIES }
ผักเลือด ~ เลียบ ~ ผักฮี
Description
Description : Tree to 10(–35) m tall, hemi-epiphytic, deciduous. Branches drying brown to yellowish (or reddish). Leafy twigs 2–5 mm thick, ± angular to subterete, glabrous or (minutely) white puberulous. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina subovate, oblong, ovate or elliptic (or lanceolate), (4–)8–20(–24) by 2.5–9 cm, (sub)coriaceous, apex acuminate, base rounded to cuneate or subcordate; both surfaces glabrous; cystoliths only below; lateral veins 7–14 pairs, the basal lateral pair to ⅛–⅕ the length of the lamina, unbranched or branched, tertiary venation reticulate to subscalariform; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole (1–)2–4.5(-6) cm long, 1–2 mm thick, glabrous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.3–1.5 (to 8 on opening shoots) cm long, glabrous or sparsely to densely puberulous, caducous or subpersistent at the apex of the leafy twigs and then usually forming ovoid terminal buds. Figs axillary, just below the leaves, or on spurs to 0.5 cm long on older wood, in pairs, solitary, or (on older wood) to 4 together, sessile or to 0.1 cm long pedunculate; basal bracts 3, 1–3 mm long, ciliolate or not, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.4–1 cm diam. when dry and the surface mostly wrinkled, glabrous (or puberulous near the ostiole), turning from white to pink to purple to black at maturity, apex convex to flat, ostiole 1–2 mm diam., flat to ± prominent, the upper ostiolar bracts minutely puberulous on the whole surface or only the margins (or glabrous); internal hairs abundant, chaffy. Staminate flowers near the ostiole. Tepals reddish. Ovary red-brown.
Gallery
วิสัยลำต้น (ซ้ายบน), ปลายกิ่งอ่อน (กลางบน และ ขวาบน), ช่อดอกบนกิ่ง (ซ้ายล่าง และ กลางล่าง), ภาคตัดขวางช่อดอก (ขวาล่าง)
Reference & Credit
https://botany.dnp.go.th/eflora/floraSpecies.html?tdcode=04708
รวบรวมคำอธิบายและถ่ายภาพโดย นายติณณภัชน์ ศรีเพ็ง