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Congea tomentosa

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

Roxburgh

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• SW. Yunnan - China
• Assam
• Manipur - India
• Laos
• N. Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Mixed evergreen forests
• disturbed areas
• thickets
• riverside
• montane areas
• swamps
• bamboo forest

Flowering Times

• Jan-Feb (Thailand) Feb-Mar (Myanmar)
• All year (Malaysia)

Fruiting Times

Large scandent yellowish-tomentose evergreen clambering shrub or perennial evergreen woody twining climber to 13m with tetragonal pubescent branches. Leaves to 185mm x 95mm puberulent above, white-tomentose beneath. Axillary & terminal 6-flowered cymes or panicles to 300mm x 210mm with 3 violet or white tomentose bracts to 30mm x 12mm, tiny white or pale violet flowers with orange stamens, lobes to 3mm long, 5-lobed hairy calyx to 7mm long with lobes 2.5mm long & tube 5mm long surrounded by 25mm x 8mm white to lilac woolly bracts. Fruit a drupe.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• RHS A-Z
• Llamas 2003
• JDH
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Phytologia
• USNH
• GBS
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew