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Ayenia elegans

Botanic Family

Malvaceae

Author

(Ridley) ined.

Common Names

• Cu mao ci guo teng (Pinyin)
• Flame Tree
• Satle-pyat (Myanmar)
• Sha-dau-ru (Myanmar)
• Shan-dau-ru (Myanmar)
• Tat-ta-ya-nwe (Myanmar)
• Taw-tha-byet (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• S. Yunnan - China
• Andaman Islands
• Assam - India
• Laos
• Pahang
• Perak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Sep

Fruiting Times

Tall woody slender twining liana, young branches hairy. Toothed leaves to 100mm x 75mm, tomentose on both surface. Axillary cymes, corymbs or umbels of 3mm flowers with bracts, 3-lobed petals yellow outside, red within, 5 villous sepals. Fruit a spiny tomentose yellow-pink capsule to 20mm diameter maturing brown, slender spines to 12mm long.

Further References

• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• GBS
• JSBRAS