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Gymnanthera oblonga

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(N.L. Burman ) P.S. Green

Propagation

S.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Northern Territory
• Queensland
• Western Australia - Australia
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• S. Guangdong
• Hainan - China
• Java - Indonesia
• Malaysia
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Streambanks
• mangroves
• coastal
• riverside
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Aug-Nov (Aust)
• Jun-Sep(China)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Jan (China)

Pubescent or glabrous tall twining shrubby glabrous liana with warty lenticellate hairy stems, axillary cymes 30mm long with bracts to 1mm, of fragrant 20mm diameter x 14mm long greenish-cream to yellow flowers to 14mm long, tube to 9mm, lobes to 7mm, calyx lobes to 1mm, corolla tube to 5mm long with lobes to 8mm long, paired glabrous follicles at 180º dark brown 120mm long x 6mm with hooked top, glabrous mucronate coriaceous leaves

Further References

• Jones & Gray 1977
• FOC
• Mangrove
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• FA
• Elmer
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Kew
• IFV