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Embelia vestita

Botanic Family

Primulaceae

Author

Roxburgh

Common Names

• Tu'amea (Tonga)

Geographical Habitats

• Nepal
• India
• Bhutan
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hunan
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Xizang
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Myanmar
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• shrubland.

Flowering Times

• Oct to Dec (China)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Jul (China)

Scandent villous shrub or creeper with lenticellate glabrescent branchlets. Glabrous subserrate leaves to 180mm x 75mm with pellucid dots & serrate or serrulate margins. Axillary racemes or corymbs to 40mm with bracts to 1.5mm of 3mm white or pinkish unisexial or bisexual flowers to 3mm. Red fruit to 10mm diameter.

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• de Candolle
• The Plant List
• G. Don
• RSNRV
• USNH
• Botanicus
• Aust SB