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Iodes ovalis

Botanic Family

Icacinaceae

Author

Blume

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Guizhou - China
• Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Johore
• Penang - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Singapore
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Streamside
• woodland edge
• secondary forest
• forest edge
• shrubland
• riverside
• jungle
• lowland forest margins

Flowering Times

• May (Vietnam)
• Jun (China)
• All Year (Malesia)

Fruiting Times

• Jan (Vietnam)
• All year (Malesia)

Dioecious deciduous woody tall climbing or creeping tendril vine or slender scandent shrub with mucronate leaves glabrous above tomentose on nerves beneath to 150mm x 65mm. Rusty-hairy axillary cymose panicles or cymes of yellowish-green or white flowers, male inflorescence to 100mm, 4-8 sepals, 4-5 petals 2.5mm villous on outside glabrous inside, female with 4-5 sepals villous outside, 4-5 petals hairy on outside, scarlet drupe 25mm long, yellow-pubescent, red-tomentose stems

Further References

• Mobot
• Flora Malesiana
• FS
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Fedde
• The Plant List 2
• JAA
• GBS