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Morinda citrifolia

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A small tree of the RUBIACEAE family that grows to about 3–6 m tall, with a straight trunk. The leaves are glossy, membranous, broadly elliptical, bright green and glabrous. Petioles stout, 1.5–2 cm long, stipules connate or distinct, 10–12 mm long, apex entire or 2–3 lobed. The flowers are white and in dense ovoid to globose heads, peduncles 10–30 mm long; calyx a truncate rim; corolla white, 5-lobed, the tube greenish white, 7–9 mm long, the lobes oblong-deltate, 7 mm long; stamens 5, scarcely exserted; style about 15 mm long. Syncarp yellowish white, fleshy, 5–10 cm long and 3–4 cm in diameter, soft and foetid when ripe. Seeds have a distinct air chamber.

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Ross, I.A. (2001). Morinda citrifolia. In: Medicinal Plants of the World. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-237-1_16

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