Azima sarmentosa
species of plant
Azima sarmentosa is a species of flowering plant in the Salvadoraceae family. It is a shrub or tree native to Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam), southern Hainan, the Philippines, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi, and New Guinea.
The species was first described as Actegeton sarmentosus by Carl Ludwig Blume in 1827. In 1876 George Bentham and
Joseph Dalton Hooker placed the species in genus Azima as A. sarmentosa.
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