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Jacquemontia paniculata

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(N.L. Burman) H. Hallier

Common Names

• Xiao qian niu (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Christmas Island
• Northern Territory
• Queensland
• Western Australia - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• Comoros
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Kenya
• Laos
• Madagascar
• Perak
• Perlis - Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mascarene Islands
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• New Caledonia
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Solomon Islands
• Sri Lanka
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Timor Leste
• Vanuatu
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Grassland
• thickets
• forest
• roadsides
• hedgerows
• riverside
• coastal
• secondary forest
• savanna forest
• forest margins

Flowering Times

• Apr (Papua New Guinea)

Fruiting Times

Herbaceous slender annual twiner or creeper with slightly hairy stems becoming glabrescent. Downy or glabrous leaves to 80mm x 50mm. Many-flowered axillary umbels, cymes or corymbs with minute bracts, of 13mm diameter pale purple, pink or white flowers or blue with white lobes, pubescent sepals to 6mm long, pinkish-white, pale blue or white corolla to 12mm long. Glabrous 4-valved brown seed capsule to 5mm diameter with small wings.

Further References

• Mobot
• FOC
• FI
• JDH
• G. Don
• FA
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• FOTA
• FOMP
• Flora Malesiana
• JAA
• GBS
• Kew
• IFV