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Hemidesmus indicus

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) R. Brown ex Schultes

Propagation

S.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Assam - India
• Maluku - Indonesia
• Laos
• Perak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• moist shady areas
• shrubland
• lowland forest.

Flowering Times

• Aug
• Oct

Fruiting Times

• Jan

Herbaceous slender evergreen climber, glabrous twining shrub or prostrate vine, grey branches, lenticellate-verrucose stems. Coriaceous mucronate leaves glabrous both surfaces 100mm x 25mm. Axillary cymes to 6mm long with bracts, of green flowers outside, purple inside, calyx to 1.5mm, corolla 6mm across, corolla tube to 2mm with purple-red lobes to 4mm. Follicles to 175mm long at 180º to one another.

Further References

• Bodkin
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• USNH
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• GBS
• Kew