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Combretum densiflorum

Botanic Family

Combretaceae

Author

(Wallich ex Planchon) I.M. Turner

Common Names

• Xiao hua shi jun zi (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Cambodia
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Penang - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Singapore
• Thailand
• S. Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• wetlands
• lowland forest

Flowering Times

• Jan (China)

Fruiting Times

Woody nearly glabrous liana or shrub, leaves glabrous both surfaces to 160mm x 60mm, axillary & terminal spikes or corymbs 50mm long of villous 25mm white then dark-red flowers, villous calyx 18m long with lobes to 2.5mm, 5 petals 4mm x1.4mm villous both sides. 4-winged fruit black, 5-ridged to 28mm x 18mm glabrous, wings to 7mm across.

Used as a vermifuge

Further References

• FOC
• NYBG
• JDH
• USNH
• JFM
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• IFV