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Decalobanthus peltatus
Decalobanthus peltatus
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) A.R. Simões & Staples
- Propagation
- S.
Common Names
- Vahibe
- Vahimbalaina
- Bulakan (Philippines)
- Vilia-wa (Fiji)
- Wa-damu (Fiji)
- Wa-bula (Fiji)
- Wabula (Fiji)
- Wadanu (Fiji)
- U-min (Myanmar)
- Kreua kou kom (Laos)
Geographical Habitats
- Christmas Island
- Queensland - Australia
- Borneo
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- Comoros Islands
- Cook Islands
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Andaman Islands
- Nicobar Islands - India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Maluku
- Sulawesi
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Laos
- Madagascar
- Malacca
- Negri-Sembilan
- Pahang
- Perak
- Sabah
- Sarawak
- Terengganu - Malaysia
- Mascarenes Islands
- Mauritius
- Myanmar
- Niue
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Reunion
- Rodrigues
- Samoa
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Tahiti
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor Leste
- Tonga
- Tubuai Island
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
- Wallis & Futuna Islands
Natural Habitats
- Coastal thickets or rainforest
- wasteland
- secondary forest
- coastal
- forest
- forest edge
- disturbed areas
- streamside.
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Glabrous scandent tall woody twiner to 30m or creeper. Axillary corymbs or cymes to 400mm of 80mm bell-shaped milk-white or yellow flowers (W. Malaysia) yellow at base silky-shaggy without, coriaceous sepals to 20mm x 12mm, glabrous chrome yellow corolla to 50mm x 40mm, vigorous woody climber, fruit capsule 4-valved ripening black 12mm long x 25mm across, glabrous leaves or hairy beneath with sinuated edges & red hairs in petiole axils 300mm x 300mm, glabrous black wrinkled stems
Medicinal uses, leaves used for washing hair, stems for tying
Further References
- Jones & Gray 1977
- NYBG
- Elmer
- JPS
- JDH
- G. Don
- FA
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FV
- FOMP
- Flora Malesiana
- GBS
- Kew