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Cryptolepis sinensis

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Loureiro) Merrill

Common Names

• Bai ye teng (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Java - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• forest edges
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Apr-Sep (China)

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Dec (China)

Glabrous twining herb, shrub or liana to 3m, with glabrous lenticellate stems, branchlets red-brown. Glabrous mucronate leaves 60mm x 25mm, silver white beneath. Terminal or axillary cymes to 80mm with bracts to 15mm, of yellow or white flowers to 35mm long, sepals to 1mm long, corolla tube to 5mm, lobes to 15mm, corolla with long linear twisted segments. Follicles to 180mm long x 8m.

Medicinal uses, fibre used for ropes

Further References

• FOC
• WFO
• G. Don
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Kew
• IFV