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Operculina turpethum
Operculina turpethum
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) Silva Manso
Common Names
- He guo teng (Pinyin)
- Dudh Kolmi (India)
- Tohri (India)
- Onion Vine
- Wabuco (Fiji)
- Indian Jalap
- Kyahin-bin (Myanmar)
- Myauk-kazun (Myanmar)
- Nyan-nwe (Myanmar)
Geographical Habitats
- Northern Territory
- Queensland - Australia
- Bangladesh
- Borneo
- Cambodia
- Caroline Islands
- Guangdong
- Guangxi
- Hainan
- Taiwan
- S. Yunnan - China
- Comoros
- Cook Islands
- Fiji
- Society Islands - France
- India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Maluku
- Sulawesi - Indonesia
- Ryukyu Islands - Japan
- Kenya
- Laos
- Madagascar
- Johore
- Penang - Malaysia
- Marquesas
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- New Caledonia
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Niue
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Samoa
- Seychelles
- Solomon Islands
- Sri Lanka
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor Leste
- Tonga
- Pitcairn Island - UK
- Hawaii - USA
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Grassland
- streambanks
- wasteland
- thickets
- roadside
- scrubland
- hedgerows
- coastal
- riverside
- coastal rain forest
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous, tuberous, evergreen tall twining slightly woody perennial with 3-5 winged glabrous or sometimes pubescent stems, axillary solitary flowers or cymes or racemes with pink bracts to 20m x 15mm, of 50mm long white, pink or yellowish flowers with yellowish centre, calyx 25mm long , sepals 30mm long tomentose outside glabrous inside, corolla 40mm long x 20mm across glabrous outside, fruit a globose capsule to 17mm diameter with accrescent & persistent sepals to 18mm long, very large mucronulate leaves 425mm x 400mm with 450mm petiole, leaves & young stems glabrous or downy
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- Menninger 1970
- Herklots 1976
- FOC
- Bodkin
- JPS
- JDH
- G. Don
- The Plant List 2
- FA
- VOPR
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FV
- FOTA
- GBS
- Kew