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Diplocyclos palmatus

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) C. Jeffrey

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• New South Wales
• Northern Territory
• Queensland
• Western Australia - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Burundi
• Cambodia
• Chad
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Taiwan - China
• Congo
• Ethiopia
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Ryukyu Islands - Japan
• Kenya
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Namibia
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Rwanda
• Natal - South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Uganda
• Vietnam
• Yemen
• Zaire
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Open moist places
• rainforest
• hedges
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Nov-Jan (Australia)
• Mar-Aug (China)
• Jul-Aug (Sri Lanka)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Dec (China)

Nearly glabrous bifid-tendril scandent herb or creeper with male & female flowers in axillary fascicles, creamy-white to green-yellow 7mm diameter flowers, 30mm long x 18mm diameter yellow-green to red fruits, narrowly white striped, slender herbaceous evergreen tendril vines, palmate leaves

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Jones & Gray 1977
• Wrigley & Fagg 1979
• Huxley 1992
• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• Bodkin
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus