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Desmos chinensis

Botanic Family

Annonaceae

Author

Loureiro

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• S Guizhou
• Hainan
• SE Yunnan - China
• India
• Thailand
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Johore
• Kedah
• Kelantan
• Malacca
• Negeri Sembilan
• Pahang
• Penang
• Perak
• Perlis
• Seberang Perai
• Sabah
• Sarawak
• Selangor
• Terengganu - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• wasteland
• thickets
• jungle
• montane areas
• lowland forest. Fruit used as a pepper. Medicinal & brewing uses. Fibres used for cordage

Flowering Times

• Apr-Oct (China)

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Dec (China)

Shrub, erect to climbing or woody liane to 40m or tree with axillary or leaf-opposed solitary inflorescences with bracts to 10mm long of 60mm diameter strongly scented extra-axillary green or white pendulous flowers turning yellow with red marks on petal base, glabrous sepals to 10mm long, greenish-yellowclawed petals to 80mm long, needs shade to climb, glabrous or minutely pubescent yellow-brown 60mm long x 6mm villous 2-6 jointed fruit, glabrescent striate young branches, leaves glabrous above, hairy beneath to 130mm x 60mm

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Herklots 1976
• FOC
• net
• Thai f.
• The Plant List 2
• BF
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• GBS