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Dischidia nummularia
Dischidia nummularia
- Botanic Family
- Apocynaceae
- Author
- R. Brown
- Propagation
- D.L.S.
Common Names
- Button Orchid
- Yuan ye yan shu lian (Pinyin)
- Pargachha (India)
- Cabalayungan (Manobo)
- Mak man lène (Laos)
Geographical Habitats
- Queensland - Australia
- Bangladesh
- Borneo
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- Fujian
- Guangdong
- Guangxi
- Hainan
- S. Yunnan - China
- Andaman Islands
- Assam - India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Maluku
- Sulawesi
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Laos
- Penang
- Pulau
- Sarawak - Malaysia
- Myanmar
- Bismarck Archipelago
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Sri Lanka
- Thailand
- Timor Leste
- Vietnam
Natural Habitats
- Near streams or in swamps
- forest
- montane forest
- riverside
- coastal forest
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Glabous evergreen twining herb or slender stem-rooting epiphytic or lithophytic creeper, stems to 1.5m, mucronulate fleshy glabrous coriaceous farinaceous leaves to 25mm x 12mm, mealy beneath. Axillary pseudumbels of white or yellowish-white or scarlet 3mm flowers, white or pink calyx, sepals 1mm liong, yellow-white corolla tube villous in throat to 1mm long, white corolla lobes to 1mm x 0.5mm. Follicles to 60mm x 6mm.
Medicinal uses
Further References
- Jones & Gray 1977
- FOC
- Bodkin
- JDH
- WFO
- de Candolle
- G. Don
- FA
- Elmer
- USNH
- F Indochine
- FOMP
- GBS
- Fedde
- Kew
- IFV