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Ayenia grandifolia

Botanic Family

Malvaceae

Author

(de Candolle) Christenhusz & Byng

Common Names

• Ci guo teng (Pinyin)
• Hoori
• Ru-niau-ru (Myanmar)
• Climbing Dhootura (Bengal)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Cambodia
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• streamsides
• disturbed areas

Flowering Times

• Spring & summer Oct-Nov (Thailand)

Fruiting Times

Large evergreen perennial woody liana or shrub with twining glabrescent stems. Leaves to 200mm x 140mm, pubescent beneath. Axillary pubescent umbels or corymbs of 25mm x 10mm, 2mm yellowish-white outside, glabrous purple-red petals to 2mm long, villous outside, calyx to 4.5mm x 1.75mm, tomentose sepals. Fruit a spiny tomentose capsule to 50mm diameter.

Further References

• FOC
• Kew
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• BMI