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Wikstroemia indica
(L.) C.Meyer, Thymelaeaceae
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Present on Pacific Islands?
no
Primarily a threat at high elevations?
no
Common name(s):
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Chinese
: liao ge wang |
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English
: tie bush |
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Tahitian
: akia, mou‘a, o‘ovao, o‘ovau, oa‘ao, ovau-ao |
Habit:
shrub
Description:
"Small twiggy
shrub
, c. 0.3-1.25 m tall.
Branchlets
and
twigs
slender, terete, with scattered fine hairs when very young but soon quite glabrous, striate, blackish-purple.
Leaves
oblanceolate to elliptic or oblong, 1.5-6 x 0.6-2 (-2.6) cm, subcoriaceous, shining on the upper surface but duller below, glabrous or almost so, cuneate to attenuate at the base, obtuse (sometimes more or less emarginate) or acute at the apex; petiole 1-2 mm, glabrous.
Flowers
yellow or green, in dense axillary or terminal few-flowered spikes, subsessile or shortly (to c. 3 mm) pedunculate; pedicels c. 2 mm, articulated below the middle. Calyx tube 5-9 mm, sparsely pilose on the outer surface, glabrous within; lobes 2-3 mm, oblong to ovate, obtuse, sparsely pilose dorsally, glabrous within. Anthers oblong, c. 0.75-1 mm. Ovary ellipsoid-oblong, c. 2 mm, glabrous or sparsely pilose about the style base; hypogynal scales 2, linear, acute or usually truncate or incised at the apex; style very short (less than 0.5 mm), stigma large and solitary.
Fruit
broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, 4-6 mm, naked, fleshy, red or green, glabrous.
Seed
globose-pyriform, 3.75-5.75 mm, with a short apical point, black" (Dassanayake, 1981; pp. 503-504).
Habitat/ecology:
In Sri Lanka, "an introduced species now abundantly established on sandy roadside banks, grassland, forest margins" (Dassanayake, 1981; pp. 503-504).
Propagation:
Seed
Native range:
"India to China, throughout Malaysia and the Malay Islands to Australia" (Dassanayake, 1981; pp. 503-504).
Presence:
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Pacific Rim
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Country/Terr./St.
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Island group
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Location
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Cited status
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Cited as invasive
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Cited as cultivated
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Cited as aboriginal introduction?
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Reference
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Comments
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Australia
Australia (continental) |
New South Wales |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
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Australia
Australia (continental) |
Northern Territory |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
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Australia
Australia (continental) |
Queensland |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
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China
China |
China (People's Republic of) |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
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China
China |
Hong Kong |
native
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Wu, Te-lin (2001)
(pp. 160-161)
In thickets on hillslopes. |
Indonesia
Indonesia |
Indonesia (Republic of) |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
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Malaysia
Malaysia |
Malaysia (country of) |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
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Singapore
Singapore |
Singapore (Republic of) |
introduced
cultivated
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Chong, Kwek Yan/Tan, Hugh T. W./Corlett, Richard T. (2009)
(p. 90)
Cultivated only |
Taiwan
Taiwan Island |
Taiwan Island |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
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Thailand
Thailand |
Thailand (Kingdom of) |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
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Vietnam
Vietnam |
Vietnam (Socialist Republic of) |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
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Control:
If you know of control methods for Wikstroemia indica, please
let us know
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This page was created on 18 JAN 2004 and was last updated on 27 OCT 2006.
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