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Cardiopteris quinqueloba

Botanic Family

Cardiopteridaceae

Author

(Hasskarl) Hasskarl

Propagation

S.

Cultivated

C, culinary

Common Names

• Xin yi guo (Pinyin)
• Gan-gaw-nwe (Myanmar)
• Gambah Putih (Malaysia)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• SE. Borneo
• Cambodia
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Kedah
• Pahang
• Perlis
• Perak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Woods
• scrubland
• forest
• montane forest
• forest edge
• hedgrows
• bamboo forest
• wasteland
• lo9wland forest. Leaves used a vegetable

Flowering Times

• May-Nov (China)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Mar (China)

Herbaceous glabrous twining liana to 9m. 3-9 lobed glabrous leaves to 170mm x 160mm. Axillary corymbs, cymes or panicles to 270mm long puberulous or nearly glabrous, white flowers with 2mm calyx lobes, petals to 3.5mm. Winged fruit with golden samaras to 35mm x 30mm and persistent calyx

Leaves eatens as vegetable, medicinal uses

Further References

• Mobot
• FOC
• Flora Malesiana
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• GBS
• Kew
• IFV