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Legnephora moorei (F.Muell.) Miers
Family Menispermaceae
Common name: Round-leaf Vine

Legnephora moorei (F.Muell.) Miers APNI*

Description: Woody climber with young stems and petioles pubescent or bristly, later ± glabrescent; older stems woody; dioecious.

Leaves with lamina ± circular to subreniform, usually cordate at base, mostly 8–20 cm long and wide, upper surface green and glabrous, lower surface ashy-grey and often finely pubescent; petiole usually 5–15 cm long, commonly longer than the lamina, with upper and lower pulvini.

Inflorescences mostly 2–5 cm long; peduncle 1–2 cm long.

Drupe globose, 8–10 mm long, compressed, red.


Fruit
Photo J. & P. Edwards

Other photo
Photo J. & P. Edwards

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Flowering: mainly summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in warmer coastal rainforest north from Milton; also in the Hunter valley. Often only noticed by the fallen grey-black laminas on the forest floor.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)


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