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Dichapetalum longipetalum

Botanic Family

Dichapetalaceae

Author

(Turczaninow) Engler

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Cambodia
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan - China
• Laos
• Malaysia
• S. Myanmar
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• montane forest
• bamboo forest
• thickets
• lowland forest

Flowering Times

• All year but mainly Oct-Mar (China)

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Jun (China)

Monoecious scandent shrub, tree or liana with glabrescent lenticellate branchlets. Leaves to 170mm x 90mm, pilose on midrib and nerves above, velutinous beneath. Axillary cymes of 5mm white flowers, lilac at tip, calyx villous outside, 5 sepals to 2.5mm long, glabrous bifid petals to 5mm long, fruit a densely ferruginous pubescent drupe to 25mm x 20mm, glabrescent stems with lenticels, red tomentum when young, glabrous leaves or, densely villous beneath

Further References

• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• JFM
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• IFV