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Hypserpa laurina
Hypserpa laurina is a slender twining climber in the plant family Menispermaceae. It is native to New Guinea and northeastern Queensland in Australia.
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Description
This species is a small vine with a maximum recorded stem diameter of 10 cm (3.9 in). It has pendulous branches and the leaves are alternate, 3-veined, elliptic, and measure up to 20 by 7.5 cm (7.9 by 3.0 in) Flowers are pale yellow in colour, male flowers measure about 5 mm (0.20 in) diameter, female flowers about 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) diameter. The fruit is a red globular drupe measuring about 15 by 14 mm (0.6 by 0.6 in)
Phenology. Flowering occurs from July to February, fruits ripen from November to April.
Range & habitat
Hypserpa laurina grows in rainforest on the east coast of northern Australia, from Airlie Beach in north Queensland, northwards to Cape York Peninsula and then to New Guinea. It can be found at altitudes from sea level to about 1000 m.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
In human culture
The genus name Hypserpa is derived from a combination of the Ancient Greek words hypsos, "high", and herpo, "to creep", and refers to the habit of this plant reaching the forest canopy. The species epithet laurina refers to the similarity of the leaves to those of plants in the family Lauraceae.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 369574.