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Cryptolepis buchananii

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

R. Brown ex Roemer & Schultes

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Open moist places
• montane forests
• hedges
• shrublands
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Mar-Aug (China)

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Dec (China)

Glabrous woody-stemmed twining liana or shrub with glabrous lenticellate angular stems. Glabrous coriaceous mucronate leaves white & veiny beneath to 200mm x 110mm. Small extra axillary cymes or corymbs to 40mm with bracts, 14mm long greenish-yellow or yellow-white flowers, tube to 2mm, lobes to 7mm. Twin follicles to 110mm long x 20mm with 2 longitudinal ridges,

Further References

• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• NYBG
• WFO
• G. Don
• USNH
• F Indochine
• JAA
• Kew
• APS