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Gouania obtusifolia

Botanic Family

Rhamnaceae

Author

Ventenat ex Brongniart

Common Names

• Mao ju qian (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Yunnan-China
• Java
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malacca - Malaysia
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riversides
• mixed forest

Flowering Times

• Jul-Sep (China)
• Sep (Thailand)
• Apr (Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Mar (China)
• Nov-Dec (Thailand)
• Jan-Apr (Vietnam)

Rust-villous climber or erect shrub, spikes of greenish-yellow flowers, simple tendrils, winged fruit. Slender woody climbing tendril perennial deciduous climber with pubescent or glabrescent branches. Axillary or terminal cymose racemes or cymose panicles to 300mm of flowers, male flowers with 5 sepals 1mm x 1mm, 5 yellow fragrant petals to 1mm. 3-winged fruit capsule yellow to 10mm x 12mm, brown samaras.

Further References

• FOC
• RSNRV
• F Indochine
• GBS
• IFV