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Family Scientific Name Trophis scandens (Lour.) Hook. & Arn. subsp. scandens Male flowers. Copyright CSIRO Hooker, W.J. & Arnott, G.A.W. (1837) Botany Beechey Voyage : 214. Common name Burney Vine; Burny Vine; Fire Vine; Firevine; Smarty Smarty; Vine, Burney; Vine, Fire; Ash, Crow; Crow Ash Stem Vine stem diameters to 6 cm recorded. Lenticels quite numerous, pale. Leaves Twigs and petioles produce a milky exudate. Leaf blades about 4-11 x 1.5-5 cm, petioles about 0.2-1.2 cm Female flowers. Copyright CSIRO long. Stipules about 2 mm long, sheathing the terminal bud. Stipular scars small and inconspicuous. Younger twigs marked by pale, elongated lenticels. Lower surface of the leaf blade scabrous. Lateral veins forming loops inside the blade margin. Flowers Male flowers: Flowers in spikes about 20-30 mm long. Flowers globose, about 1-1.5 mm diam. Tepals about 1.5 x 1 mm, outer surface densely clothed in hairs. Anthers about 1.2 x 1.2 mm, filaments about 3.5 mm long. Female flowers: Flowers borne in globular heads about 4 mm diam. Heads solitary or in racemes. Individual flowers about 1-1.2 x 1 mm. Usually about 2-4 fertile flowers per head. Perianth urn-shaped, completely Fruits and seed. Copyright W. T. Cooper enclosing the ovary, only the stigmas protruding at the apex. Style short, stigmas about 5-7 mm long. Fruit Receptacle orange-red, tuberculate, about 10-15 mm long with 1-3 fruits attached. Each fruit about 9 mm long, ellipsoid, style persistent at the apex. Seeds about 7 mm long, one cotyledon much longer than the other and completely enveloping the smaller one. Radicle about 2 mm long. Seedlings One or two cataphylls produced before the first pair of true leaves. First pair of true leaves ovate, about 20- 30 x 12-18 mm, margins crenate or lobed, petioles about 1-2 mm long. Stipules narrowly triangular or filiform, about 2 mm long. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade ovate, about 8-9 x 4-5 cm, apex acute to Fruit. Copyright CSIRO acuminate, base auriculate, petiole about 4 mm long. Stipules about 2 mm long, sheathing the terminal bud. Lateral veins forming loops inside the blade margin. Seed germination time 17 to 28 days. Distribution and Ecology Occurs in WA, NT, CYP, NEQ, CEQ and southwards as far as south-eastern . Altitudinal range in northern Australia from near sea level to 1100 m. Grows in beach forest, monsoon forest, lowland, upland and mountain rain forest. Also occurs in Malesia. Natural History & Notes Food for the larval stages of the Two-brand Crow and Eastern Brown Crow Butterflies. Common & Waterhouse (1981). Leaves and fruit. Copyright CSIRO Vine X Synonyms Malaisia scandens (Lour.) Planch., Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique ser. 4, 3 : 293(1855). Malaisia scandens (Lour.) Planch. subsp. megacarpa P.S.Green, Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 67: 113(1986). Caturus scandens Lour., Fl. Cochinch. : 612(1790), Type: Indo-China, J. de Loureiro; holo: BM. Fide E. D. Merrill, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 24: 133 (1935). Malaisia cunninghamii Planch., Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique ser. 4, 3 : 294(1855), Type: Nouvelle-Hollande, cote orientale intertropicale; dans le forets epaisses de la riviere Brisbane et de Moreton-Bay. Allan Cunningham. Malaisia acuminata Planch., Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique ser. 4, 3 : 294(1855), Type: Nouvelle-Hollande, sur le mont Marshall, dans le district dIllawara, Bakhouse in herb. Hook. Malaisia viridescens Planch., Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique ser. 4, 3 : 293(1855), Type: Nouvelle- Hollande, cote orientale intertropicale, Allan Cunningham. Malaisia tortuosa var. viridescens (Planch.) Bureau, Prodromus 17: 222(1873). Malaisia tortuosa var. acuminata (Planch.) Bureau, Prodromus 17: 222(1873). Malaisia tortuosa Blanco, Flora de Filipinas : 789(1837), Type: Algunos indios le conocen y fan a beber su cocimiento a las mugeres paridas.

RFK Code Scale bar 10mm. Copyright CSIRO 2144 CC-BY Australian Tropical Herbarium unless otherwise indicated in the images.

Cotyledon stage, hypogeal germination. Copyright CSIRO

10th leaf stage. Copyright CSIRO

Vine stem bark and vine stem transverse section. Copyright CSIRO