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Melodinus cochinchinensis

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Loureiro) Merrill

Common Names

• Si mao shan chen (Pinyin)
• Ham Ngouo (Laos)
• Mountain Orange
• Kar lor hoan quor
• Ngansein-nwe (Myanmar)
• Kua mak kon khong (Laos)
• Kei pocal
• Pocal
• Giom (Vietnam)
• Khua mak ham ngua (Laos)
• Mak yang nieu (Laos)
• Mak yang nia (Laos)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hongkong
• S. Yunnan - China
• Assam - India
• Laos
• Penang
• Perak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines Thailand
• Timor Leste
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane forests
• evergreen forest
• humid forest
• scrub
• hill forest

Flowering Times

• Apr-Nov(China)
• Apr (Thailand)
• Jul (India)
• Apr-Jun (Laos)
• May-Aug (Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Dec (China)
• May-Aug (Vietnam)

Tall perennial evergreen glabrous woody climber to 5m, shrubby tree or rambling shrub with lenticellate stems, puberulous terminal or rarely axillary cymes, panicles or corymbs to 250mm long with bracts to 2mm long pubescent outside, of 55mm fragrant white or yellow flowers or white with cream centre, calyx with 5 lobes 3mm long, corolla tube villous inside to 20mm long, 5 lobes to 12mm long, 5 sepals to 3mm long puberulent on back, 5 petals puberulent outside 7mm long, glabrous to 125mm x 75mm red-orange edible berry, stout liane, glabrous coriaceous leaves to 195mm x 60mm with undulate margins

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Menninger 1970
• Herklots 1976
• P & R 1997
• FOC
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• JAA
• GBS
• Kew
• IFV