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Dischidia bengalensis

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Colebrooke

Common Names

• Tipang Kura (Sarawak)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Andaman Islands
• Assam
• Nicobar islands - India
• Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Johor
• Kedah
• Lancawi
• Pahang
• Penang
• Perak
• Pulau
• Sarawak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Coastal forests
• montane areas
• primary forest

Flowering Times

• Sep (India)

Fruiting Times

Pitcher plant with 5mm flowers, large epiphytic glabrous climber or creeper with fleshy stems, leaves to 50mm x 6mm, axillary umbels of creamy-white flowers with red calyx, greenish-white corolla to 12mm long with hairy mouth. Follicles to 60mm long

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Beckett 1990
• de Candolle
• WFO
• G. Don
• USNH
• Botanicus
• NYBG
• FOMP
• P. Chai
• IFV