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Argyreia osyrensis

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Roth) Choisy

Common Names

• Ju hua bai he teng (Pinyin)
• Mala-erikaliga (Osyre)

Geographical Habitats

• Cambodia
• SW. Guangxi
• Hainan
• S. Yunnan - China
• India
• N. Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest & thickets
• coastal
• evergreen forests
• bamboo
• disturbed areas
• secondary growth

Flowering Times

• Aug-Oct (China)
• Oct-Mar (Thailand)

Fruiting Times

• Dec (China)

Scandent shrub, twining or non-twining shrub or perennial woody climber with white tomentose branches. Leaves villous or nearly glabrous above, hoary tomentose beneath 130mm x 100mm. Axillary tomentose cymes with bracts tomentose on back, glabrous & pink on front to 12mm long, 15mm long purple-pink or red flowers hirsute without with 5 hairy lobes with glabrous margins to 8mm & tube to 7mm, exterior sepals 10mm x 7mm, interior sepals 6mm x 3mm all tomentose on back glabrous inside. Fruit a red berry 10mm diameter with persistent calyx red within.

Further References

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