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Luvunga scandens

Botanic Family

Rutaceae

Author

(Roxburgh) Buchanan-Hamilton ex Wight & Arnott

Common Names

• San ye teng (Pinyin)
• Trang xa (Vietnam)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Guangdong
• Hainan
• S. Yunnan - China
• Laos
• Johore - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Riverside
• forests
• montane areas
• lowland & hill forest
• swamp forest

Flowering Times

• Mar-Apr (China)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Dec (China)

Heavy woody armed liana with red-brown thorns, terminal or axillary panicles of orange-perfumed pale green to yellow flowers, 4 petals to 10mm, 4 sepals to 4mm long, yellow fruit to 50mm diameter with persistent calyx, leaves with 3-5 leaflets

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• GBS
• Merrill
• IFV