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Gymnema sylvestre
Gymnema sylvestre
- Botanic Family
- Apocynaceae
- Author
- (Retzius) R. Brown ex Smith
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- Western Australia - Australia
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Borneo
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Fujian
- Guangdong
- Guangxi
- Hainan
- Taiwan
- Yunnan
- Zhejiang - China
- Congo
- Eritraea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Assam - India
- Indonesia
- Ivory Coast
- Ryukyu Islands - Japan
- Kenya
- Laos
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Cape Province
- Natal
- Transvaal
- Northern Provinces - South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zaire
Natural Habitats
- Woodland
- bushland
- riverside
- sea shore
- thickets
- hedges.
Flowering Times
- Apr-Nov (China)
- Sep (Ethiopia)
- Apr (Madagascar)
Fruiting Times
Large woody stem-twining liana shrubby vine with glabrescent stems. Coriaceous glabrescent leaves 75mm x 40mm. Extra-axillary & terminal cymes or umbels 8mm x 15mm, of yellowish, greenish-white or white flowers to 3mm with bracts to 1.5mm long, hairy calyx lobes, sepals to 2mm long, glabrous corolla to 4mm diameter with pilose tube 2mm long, yellowish-white lobes 2mm long. Glabrous or downy beaked follicles to 150mm long x 20mm.
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- FOC
- FCP
- JDH
- The Plant List 2
- de Candolle
- G. Don
- FA
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- JAA
- Fedde
- Kew
- APS