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Neoalsomitra clavigera

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Wallich) Hutchinson

Common Names

• Bang chui gua (Pinyin)
• Kishnobera (Bengali)

Geographical Habitats

• Queensland - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Taiwan
• SE. Xizang
• Yunnan - China
• Fiji
• India
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Kedah - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Bismarck Archipelago
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Solomon Islands
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane forest
• forest
• secondary forest
• rain forest
• swamp edge
• montane thickets

Flowering Times

• Sep-Nov (China)
• Mar (Papua New Guinea)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Apr (China)

Slender herbaceous bifid or simple-tendril climber-creeper or liana, glabrous stems. 5-foliolate glabrous leaves rarely 3-foliolate, leaflets to 140mm x 70mm, tendrils to 200mm long. Dioecious, with male axillary many-flowered panicles to 200mm long with bracts & bracteoles, of 6mm diameter white or pale yellow flowers, calyx with 5 sepals 1.5mm x 1mm, villous petals 3mm x 1.5mm. Female inflorescence 100mm long, calyx & petals as male, female to 4mm & villous. Green fruit capsule to 85mm long x 20mm

Further References

• FOC
• Mobot
• NHN
• APNI
• NYBG
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• USNH
• F. Indochine
• JAA
• GBS
• Merrill