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Coelospermum truncatum

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Wallich) Baillon ex K. Schumann

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Taiwan - China
• Andaman Islands - India
• Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Malacca
• Penang
• Perak - Malaysia
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane areas
• jungle edge
• thickets
• forests
• streamside forest

Flowering Times

• Feb-May (Vietnam)
• Apr-May (China)

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jul-Sep (China)

Evergreen slender woody glabrous twining liana to 15m with coriaceous glabrous leaves to 120mm x 75mm, terminal & axillary puberulous panicles, umbels or fascicles to 80mm long of fragrant white or creamy-yellow flowers to 12mm, puberulous calyx to 3mm long, 5 coriaceous petals 3.5mm long, corolla tube to 8mm long, glabrous outside villous inside, 5 yellow lobes to 2.5mm long, fruit a pale green drupe 15m across

Further References

• Mobot
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• FOC
• Kew
• GBS