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Connarus monocarpus ssp. malayensis

Botanic Family

Connaraceae

Author

Leenhouts

Common Names

• Kadok-kadeta (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Johore - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand

Natural Habitats

• Ravines
• moist forest
• riverine forest
• montane forest
• primary & secondary fores
• forest edge
• riverside
• coastal
• swamp or marshland
• lowland forest edges or clearings. Medicinal uses
• stems & branches used for tying

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Apr Jan-May (Malaysia)

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Apr Sep-Apr (Malaysia)

Scandent glabrous high-climbing twining shrub, sprawling shrub, liana to 40m or small tree with terminal, glabrous lenticellate branches. Glabrous imparipinnate leaves to 200mm long with 1-4 pairs of leaflets, leaflets to 140mm x 70mm. Tomentose lateral or axillary panicles to 300mm long with minute bracts, reddish-yellow or pink fragrant flowers, sepals to 3mm x 1.5mm pubescent outside glabrous within, tomentose petals 10mm long x 2mm wide. Curved glabrous yellow to orange coriaceous follicles to 40mm x 10mm with a beak.

Further References

• net
• Botanicus
• FOSi
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Elmer
• USNH
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• Merrill