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Dischidanthus urceolatus

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Decaisne) Tsiang

Common Names

• Ma lan teng (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Hunan
• Sichuan - China
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• thickets
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Mar-Sep (China)

Fruiting Times

• May-Dec (China)

Slender glabrous herbaceous twiner with coriaceous glabrous mucronate leaves, pubescent above. Extra-axillary cymes to 8mm of 4mm long green-yellow flowers, glabrous corolla tube with 5 small lobes. Paired glabrous follicles to 80mm long x 7mm.

Medicinal uses

Further References

• FOC
• WFO
• de Candolle
• F Indochine
• Kew
• IFV