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Oxystelma esculentum

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Linnaeus f.) Smith

Common Names

• Jian huai teng (Pinyin)
• Phak May (Laos)
• Kauk-yo-nwe (Myanmar)
• Kiou kou mai (Laos)
• Kulappalai (Sri Lanka)
• Dugdhi (Sanskrit)
• Usippalai (Tamil)

Geographical Habitats

• Northern Territory
• Western Australia - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Chad
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Yunnan - China
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Assam - India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands - Indonesia
• Israel
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Palestine
• Israel
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Vietnam
• Yemen

Natural Habitats

• Moist bushland
• streamsides
• hedges
• riverside shrubland
• hedgerows
• montane areas
• streamside

Flowering Times

• Jul-Sep (China)
• Oct (Indonesia)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Dec (China)

Glabrous twining herbaceous perennial liana. Hairy leaves 85mm x 20mm. Glabrous axillary cymes or racemes to 40mm long to 4 flowers, pink or white flowers with purple-pink veins & blotches to 30mm diameter, calyx with 5 sepals to 4mm long, pale rose or whitish corolla to 25mm wide with dark pink stripes, 5-lobed, with bearded base and fringed with hairs with lobes to 20mm. Glabrous mucronate twin follicles to 75mm x 16mm.

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• FOC
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Kew
• FOTA
• Wiart 2
• APS