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Dinetus racemosus

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Wallich) Sweet

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Common Names

• Fei e teng (Pinyin)
• Snow Creeper
• Ma-ywe (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Anhui
• Fujian
• Gansu
• Guangdong
• Yunnan
• Guizhou
• Sichuan
• Hainan
• Henan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Guangxi
• Zhejiang
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Shaanxi
• Xizang - China
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sulawesi - Indonesia
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Timor Leste
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• forests
• wasteland
• evergreen forest
• disturbed areas
• secondary growth
• montane thickets
• waterside
• jungle.

Flowering Times

• Oct-Nov (Thailand)
• Jun-Sep (China)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Nov (China)

Herbaceous annual glabrescent twiner or creeper with yellowish to silvery indumentum, stems smooth or strigose. Mucronate leaves glabrous above downy beneath 100mm x 70mm. Axillary panicles or racemes to 450mm with bracts, of fragrant 13mm diameter white flowers, yellow inside tube, 5 sepals 2mm long villous outside, corolla 10mm x 10mm with 5 lobes to 3mm. Brownish to brown-purple to black glabrous mucronate fruit capsule enclosed in persistent calyx to 9mm long x 5mm, covered with yellow hairs when young.

Medicinal uses

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• Chudian 2001
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Flora Melanesia
• Kew