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Ipomoea sumatrana

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Miquel) van Ooststroom

Common Names

• Hai nan shu (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Cambodia
• SE. Guangxi
• Hainan
• Taiwan
• S. Yunnan - China
• Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Kedah
• Pahang
• Penang
• Perak
• Perlis - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest margins
• thickets
• roadsides
• lowland & hill forest

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Large woody glabrous twining vine, shrubby climber or prostrate vine with glabrous leaves to 120mm x 100mm, cymes or panicles to 150mm of 35mm with bracts at base, lilac or greenish-white flowers with a reddish-purple centre, coriaceous sepals to 5mm long, pale pink corolla to 30mm x 8mm, fruit capsule to 9mm diameter

Further References

• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• FOMP
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• Kew