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Mussaenda pubescens

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Dryander

Common Names

• Kar Kum Ngan Fa
• Yu ye jin hua (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Hunan
• Jiangxi
• Taiwan
• Zhejiang - China
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• disturbed areas

Flowering Times

• Apr-May or Jun-Aug May-Jul (China)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Dec

Climbing shrub with terminal cymes of 25mm long pale yellow flowers, no floral bracts, tube to 20mm long, lobes 4mm long, & 90mm white sepals, corolla downy outside leaf bracts white to 40mm long, fruit a hairy black berry 10mm long x 7.5mm, leaves pubescent on nerves

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Chujian 2001
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• JAA
• Kew