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Lepistemon binectarifer

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Wallich) Kuntze

Common Names

• Lin rui teng (Pinyin)
• Hoa bim bim (Vietnam)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Hainan
• Taiwan - China
• Assam - India
• Java
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Ryukyu Islands - Japan
• Laos
• Negri-Sembilan
• Perak
• Selangor - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• thickets
• montane shrubland
• forest edge thickets
• hedgerows

Flowering Times

• Dec-Jan (China)

Fruiting Times

• Jan (China)

Hairy brown herbaceous twiner to 3m. Mucronate sometimes 3-5 lobed leaves to 180mm x 150mm with hairs on both surfaces. Axillary cymes or umbels 40mm diameter to 50mm long with bracts to 7.5mm long, 18mm long white or cream flowers or 36mm long, exterior sepals 8mm long, interior sepals 5mm long all villous outside, yellowish-white corolla 15mm long, glabrous mucronate fruit capsule to 8mm enclosed by calyx, hairy leaves, upper leaves somewhat 3-lobed, stem, petioles, leaves & outside of sepals hairy.

Further References

• Mobot
• FOC
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• Kew