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Camonea pilosa

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Houttuyn) A.R. Simões & Staples

Common Names

• Shan Zhu Chai (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Northern Territory
• Queensland
• Western Australia - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Caroline Islands
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Seychelles
• Sri Lanka
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Road edges & rainforest margins
• evergreen forest
• disturbed areas
• secondary growth
• thickets. Young leaves edible. Medicinal uses

Flowering Times

• Aug-Nov (Aust)
• Feb-Mar (Thailand)

Fruiting Times

Herbaceous annual twiner to 3m or prostrate herb, hairy stems. 3-lobed leaves to 130mm x 130mm with white tomentum beneath. Umbels or cymes of 55mm white or yellow flowers with violet radius, flower bracts to 7mm x 2mm, sepals to 2.2mm x 3mm, corolla to 20mm long. Seed capsule to 13mm x 8mm

Further References

• Jones & Gray 1977
• FOC
• GBS
• Kew
• IFV
• Jstor