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Olax imbricata

Botanic Family

Olacaceae

Author

Roxburgh

Common Names

• Tie qing shu (Pinyin)
• Biton (Philippines)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Hainan
• Taiwan - China
• Andaman Islands
• Nicobar Islands - India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Palau
• Philippines
• Solomon Islands
• Sri Lanka
• Timor
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Primary or secondary forest
• mangrove
• peat swamp
• lowland forest
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Apr-Oct (China) Hot season (India) Dec-Feb (India) Jul
• Feb-Mar

Fruiting Times

• Apr-Oct

Scandent or erect unarmed shrub, small tree or liana with striate lenticellate glabrous branchlets. Glabrous coriaceous leaves to 180mm x 75mm. Axillary finely villous white or pinkish 10mm flowers with yellowish appendages in axillary racemes to 60mm or solitary with floral bracts to 3mm, calyx very small, 5 petals to 12mm long. Fruit a drupe with orange persistent calyx to 20mm diameter x 25mm long.

Leaves have medicinal uses

Further References

• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• NYBG
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• Merrill
• IFV