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Cynanchum annularium

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Roxburgh) Liede & Khanum

Common Names

• Jiao jian teng (Pinyin)
• Kodisipala (Sri Lanka)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Yunnan - China
• Assam
• Jammu & Kashmir - India
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand

Natural Habitats

• Bushland
• montane areas
• montane riverside

Flowering Times

• Apr-Sep (China)
• Jul-Jan (Sri Lanka)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Dec (China)
• Jul-Jan (Sri Lanka)

Large perennial liana or glabrous twining shrub to 8m. Leaves puberulous beneath to 120mm x 80mm. Extra-axillary few-flowered umbels of 35mm diameter white to yellowish flowers, purple-crimson inside, 5-lobed calyx with sepals to 3mm, corolla to 35mm with lobes to 16mm. Glabrous follicles to 140mm long x 40mm

Medicinal uses

Further References

• FOC
• G. Don
• Menninger 1970
• JDH
• de Candolle
• Kew
• RDC
• APS
• WFO