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Cynanchum acidum

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Roxburgh) Oken

Common Names

• Rou shan hu (Pinyin)
• Somalatha

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• S. Guangdong
• Hainan - China
• India
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Coastal thickets

Flowering Times

• Mar-Nov (China)

Fruiting Times

Glabrous woody leafless stem twiner with terminal or extra-axillary cymes or umbels of white or yellowish flowers, corolla to 8mm diameter, lobes to 3mm, divergent follicles to 150mm long x 10mm

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• FOC
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Kew
• WFO