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Embelia undulata

Botanic Family

Primulaceae

Author

(Wallich) Mez

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hunan
• Jiangxi
• Sichuan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• shrubland
• montane areas
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Apr-Aug (China)
• Jan (Laos)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Jan (China)
• Dec-Jan (Laos)

Scandent or erect glabrous shrub or liana, verrucose stems, brnachlets lenticellate & often twisted. Leaves to 180mm x 80mm. Llateral or axillary racemes to 60mm x 12mm with bracts to 1.1mm, yellowish or greenish flowers with unpleasant odour, males to 3mm, females 1.5mm 4 sepals 0.6mm long, 4 petals 2mm long. Longitudinally ribbed fruit to 15mm diameter .

Further References

• FOC
• USNH
• F Indochine
• Aust SB