1. Home
2. Alyxia reinwardtii

Alyxia reinwardtii

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Blume

Cultivated

C, fragrant flowers & bark

Common Names

• Kalang Ukoh (Kelabit)
• Chang hua lian zhu teng (Pinyin)
• Pulasari (Singapore)
• Dam tao (Vietnam)
• Giây sen (Thailand)
• Pulasari (Malaysia)
• Mempelas Hari (Malaysia)
• Nut (Thai)
• Padasarie (Indonesian)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• S. Yunnan - China
• Andaman Islands
• Nicobar Islands - India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sumatra -Indonesia
• Laos
• Johore
• Kedah
• Kelantan
• Malacca
• Negeri Sembilan
• Pahang
• Penang
• Perak
• Selangor
• Terengganu - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Palawan - Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• shrubland
• montane areas
• coastal
• swamp forest
• primary & secondary forest

Flowering Times

• May-Oct (China)
• Aug (Laos)

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Dec (China)
• Aug (Laos)

Slender glabrous woody twining liana, ground creeper or shrub with lenticellate angled stems. Coriaceous mucronate leaves 170mm x 61mm glabrous on both surfaces in whorls of 3-5. Axillary & terminal puberulous cymes to 30mm long wit bracts to 4.5mm x 1.2mm, bracteoles to 1.5mm lengthening to 35mm in fruit, 3-12 yellow-white or yellow-green scented orange-yellow & greenish-white flowers with orange throat, pubescent calyx lobes, 5 sepals to 3.5mm x 1.8mm, 5 petals to 2mm, corolla to 14mm, white, pink, cream, yellow pr orange corolla tube to 15mm x 2mm, lobes to 4mm x 3.1mm. Fruit purple berry or drupe to 25.3mm long x 11.4mm.

Bark used to perfume clothes

Further References

• Mobot
• FOC
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• FS
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• GBS
• Kew
• Blumea