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Getonia floribunda

Botanic Family

Combretaceae

Author

Roxburgh

Common Names

• E chi teng (Pinyin)
• Pelawas (Malaysia)
• Gyut-nwe (Myanmar)
• Kywet-nwe (Myanmar)
• Ksus (Laos)
• Dok ko deng (Laos)
• Khsout (Laos)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• W. Yunnan - China
• Java - Indonesia
• Andaman Islands
• Assam
• Kerala
• Malabar - India
• Laos
• Kedah
• Pahang
• Penang - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Monsoon forest
• forest margins
• forest
• riversides
• mangrove edges
• lowland forest

Flowering Times

• Mar-Apr (China)
• Mar-May (India)

Fruiting Times

• May-Jun (China)

Tall pilose liana or scandent shrub with panicles to 300mm or more of tomentose apetalous yellow-green flowers to 6mm in fulvous-pubescent terminal or axillary panicles to 200mm long, flowers with bracts 5mm long, glabrescent calyx 6mm long with 5 lobes villous both surfaces, style 5mm long, densely pilose fruit to 23 mm with persistent calyx & 5 wings, densely hairy young branches often pendent, stems rusty-tomentose, simple opposite tomentose leaves, leaves pubescent or glabrous above, rusty-tomentose beneath to 170mm x 70mm

Medicinal uses

Further References

• Mobot
• FOC
• Mangrove
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• Sahyadri
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• IFV