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Iodes cirrhosa

Botanic Family

Icacinaceae

Author

Turczaninow

Common Names

• Wei hua teng (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• S. Guangxi
• S. Yunnan - China
• Andaman Islands
• Assam
• Nicobar Islands - India
• Java
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Johore
• Malacca
• Perak
• Selangor - Malaysia
• S. Myanmar
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• evergreen forest
• disturbed areas
• secondary growth
• primary & secondary forest
• shrubland
• coastal
• swamp forest margins

Flowering Times

• Jan-Apr (China)
• All year (Malesia)
• Dec (Myanmar)

Fruiting Times

• May-Oct (China)
• All Year (Malesia)

Perennial evergreen woody tendril liana to 18m with stems to 80mm diameter, rusty tomentellous branchlets. Leaves to 180mm x 115mm, glabrous above and yellow-hairy beneath. Rusty tomentous panicles or lax cymes to 150mm, 5-lobed calyx strigose outside withs lobes to 0.75mm, 3.5mm staminate fragrant white or yellow flowers, pistillate flowers without petals. Red rusty pubescent drupe to 26mm long x 20mm x 10mm.

Medicinal uses

Further References

• FOC
• Flora Malesiana
• USNH
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• GBS
• IFV