Dinetus truncatus (Kurz) Staples

Herbs annual; indumentum yellowish. Stems sparsely sericeous, glabrescent. Petiole 3.8-6.4 cm; leaf blade broadly ovate-cordate, 8.3-9.5 ´ 5.6-6.9 cm, sparsely stellate, adaxially glabrous or sparsely strigose; veins ± sericeous with simple hairs abaxially. Inflorescences and flowers unknown. Infructescence a lax raceme or panicle, 15-23 cm; bracts cordate. Pedicel deflexed, (0.7-)1-1.1(-1.5) cm. Fruiting calyx spreading; sepals purplish tan to brownish, slenderly elliptic to oblong, equal, (1-)1.7-2.1 cm ´ (3-)4-5 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, apex obtuse to rounded, mucronulate. Fruit straw colored to rusty brown, angles often darker, pendent, inflated, broadly obovoid to rhomboid, ± 5-angled, 4-6(-8) ´ 4-6.5(-8) mm, glabrous or puberulent, truncate or depressed-concave apically. Seed yellowish to dark red-brown, ellipsoid to ± globose, 3-5 ´ (2-)3-4 mm, smooth to coarsely wrinkled. Fl. unknown, fr. Oct-Dec.

Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Yunnan [E Myanmar, N Thailand].

Sandy, silty, or clay soils, damp forest clearings, roadsides, thickets, fallow cultivated land; 700-2500 m.

Porana truncata Kurz, J. Bot. 11: 136. 1873; P. racemosa Roxburgh var. sericocarpa C. Y. Wu.

Dinetus truncatus là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Bìm bìm. Loài này được (Kurz) Staples mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1993.