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Argyreia mollis

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(N. L. Burman) Choisy

Common Names

• Yin bei teng (Pinyin)
• Wear trachiec ansy (Cambodia)
• Làbac thau (Cambodia)
• Elephant Creeper
• Ulan Gajah (Malay)
• Tulupan (Indonesia)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Hainan - China
• Andaman Islands - India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Kedah
• Perlis - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forested valleys
• montane areas
• secondary forest
• thickets
• hedges
• wasteland
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Aug-Oct (China)
• Sep-Mar) Thailand

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Feb (China)

Large twining silky shrub or liana to 10m high. Glabrous or silky mucronulate coriaceous leaves above, densely bronze-silky or downy beneath 150mm x 70mm with tubercular hairs above. Cymes or umbels of 75mm pale violet to pink flowers, white-hairy outside often surrounded by a rosette of leaves & with bracts, 5 silky sepals 7mm x 6mm, white corolla with pink edge silky outside or pale violet, to 70mm x 25mm with tube to 7mm x 2mm. Red to orange-red berry 10mm in diameter enclosed in 10mm diameter sepals.

Used to tie up firewood. Medicinal uses

Further References

• FOC
• DBThai
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• Kew
• Wiart 2