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Codonopsis javanica

Botanic Family

Campanulaceae

Author

(Blume) Hooker f. & Thomson

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• SW. Guizhou
• Hainan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• Andhra Pradesh
• Assam
• Karnataka
• Maharashtra - India
• Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Japan
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Open places
• steep rocky slopes
• evergreen mixed forest
• shrubland
• montane woodland
• forest edge
• thickets
• grassland
• secondary forest. Roots used medicinally. Edible fruit

Flowering Times

• May-Nov (China)
• Sep-Oct (Thailand)
• All year (Malesia)

Fruiting Times

• May-Nov (China)
• All year (Malesia)

Tuberrfous twining glabrous perennial evergreen herb with glabrous leaves 80mm x 50mm, undulate margins. Solitary axillary and terminal glabrous or glabrescent white or yellow-green flowers purple inside to 35mm, calyx to 4mm long with 5 lobes to 23mm x 8mm, yellow-green corolla with purple veining, corolla tube 18mm long with 5 lobes 20mm x 12mm, black-purple or purple-red berry 15mm x 25mm with persistent calyx lobes

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Bailey 1976
• NYBG
• Mobot
• net
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana
• Kew