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Combretum roxburghii

Botanic Family

Combretaceae

Author

Sprengel

Propagation

C.S.

Common Names

• Dars (Chepang)
• Jhyaringe (Magar)
• Arthunge (Nepali)
• Thakaule (Nepali)
• Shi rui feng che zi (Pinyin)
• Thamaka-nwe (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• S Guangxi
• SW Yunnan - China
• India
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest areas

Flowering Times

• Apr to Sep

Fruiting Times

• Oct to Jan

Liana or large sometimes scandent or erect shrub with pendant branches, terminal or axillary spikes or panicles to 200mm or more of 30mm white or pale green honey-scented flowers, 5 petals to 2mm villous both surfaces, cream floral leaves, calyx villous outside & inside with 5 lobes to 1mm, 5-winged glabrous fruit to 30mm x 10mm, wings 10mm across, plant clothed with fuscous down, coriaceous leaves glabrous both surfaces or finely villous beneath

Used as fodder, juice of leaf has medicinal uses.

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• JDH
• J.S. Gamble
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Kew