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Lasiobema scandens

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Linnaeus) de Wit

Common Names

• Pan yuan yang ti jia (Pinyin)
• Snake Climber
• Ketlan (Myanmar)
• Myauk-hlega (Myanmar)
• Sha-lip-lakang (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Cambodia
• Guangxi
• Hainan - China
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• disturbed forest
• coastal.

Flowering Times

• Oct (China)

Fruiting Times

• Dec (China)

Large woody glabrous tendril liana to 50m with glabrescent young branches, old stems flattened, simple or bilobed alternate leaves to 120mm x 100mm, glabrous above, sparsely hairy to glabrous beneath. Axillary & terminal racemes or panicles to 300mm long with setaceous bracts 2mm long, and minute bracteoles, fragrant white flowers, villous calyx without tube, 5 glabrous petals to 3mm, glabrous legume 50mm x 25mm,

Fibre

Further References

• NYBG
• FOC
• JDH
• APDC
• J.S. Gamble
• Sahyadri
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• JAA
• Flora Malesiana