Gynochthodes canthoides (F.Muell.) Razafim. & B.Bremer

Rubiaceae

Razafimandimbison, S.G. & Bremer, B. (2011), Nomenclatural changes and taxonomic notes in the tribe Morindeae (Rubiaceae). Adansonia 33(2): 288.

Vine or scrambler with woody stems. Buds and young stems sparsely hairy, stems becoming hairless.

Leaves simple, opposite. Stipules interpetiolar, lanceolate, 2-3 mm long, becoming membranous and disintegrating. Petiole 2-5 mm long. Leaf blade ovate to oblong-ovate, elliptic, 2-8 cm long, 1.5-5 cm wide, base cuneate to obtuse, margins entire, apex shortly acuminate; juvenile leaves linear, to 12 cm long and 2-4 mm wide. Lateral veins 6-8 pairs. Domatia hairy or hairless pits. Both surfaces hairless or sparsely hairy.

Inflorescences range from simple stalked flowers in axillary clusters to 1-3 flowered heads, heads occurring in pairs on short stalks united by a common peduncle 1-5 mm long. Flowers either all bisexual or sometimes some male flowers mixed with bisexual flowers, actinomorphic, 4- or 5-merous, c. 2 mm diam. Sepals ± united into a short tube. Petals with tube 1-2 mm long, lobes spreading to recurved, 2-3 mm long, white to yellow. Stamens same number as corolla lobes, exserted from corolla tube. Ovary inferior, fused to ovary of adjacent flowers in head when present; style exserted from corolla tube, stigma bilobed.

Fruit fleshy, a drupe when developing from a solitary flower or an aggregate when developing from fused flowers, globose or irregularly 2- or 3-lobed, 4-10 mm diam., orange-red. Stones 1-3 per syncarp, each 1-seeded.

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Occurs in WA, the southern part of NEQ near Townsville, and in CEQ southwards to near Newcastle in New South Wales.

This profile information and associated coding has been adapted from Cooper & Cooper (2004) and Harden et al. (2014).

Coprosma canthoides F.Muell., Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 7(52): 45, (1869). Coprosma acutifolia F.Muell. ex Benth. nom. illeg., Flora Australiensis 3: 429 (1867), Type: "N.S. Wales. Durandoo, in the western interior, Goodwin and Dallachy." Morinda canthoides (F.Muell.) Halford & R.J.F.Hend., Austrobaileya 5(4): 731, (2000). Morinda acutifolia F.Muell., nom. illeg.  Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(80): 179, (1875).  Type: "Ad flumen Pine-River, F. M. ; ad fluvium Brisbane's River, Bailey ; prope urbem Rockhampton, Thozet.