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Pandorea pandorana

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

(Andrews) van Steenis

Common Names

• Wonga Wonga Vine
• Spearwood

Geographical Habitats

• Lord Howe Is.
• New South Wales
• Norfolk Island
• Northern Territories
• Queensland
• Tasmania
• Victoria - Australia
• East Timor
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku - Indonesia
• New Caledonia
• New Guinea
• N. Solomon Islands
• Vanuatu

Natural Habitats

• Open forest
• montane areas riverside
• coastal
• primary and secondary forest.

Flowering Times

• All Year (Malesia)
• Jul-Oct (Aust)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Dec (Malesia)

Vigorous evergreen glabrous woody twining liane to 30m with imparipinnate mucronate glabrous leaves dotted beneath, leaflets to 100mm x 60mm with winged petioles. Terminal, lateral or from old wood, panicles or racemes of fragrant to 30mm creamy-white flowers marked red to brown inside in terminal or axillary clusters, with bearded throat, calyx to 3mm, corolla tube to 30mm long, lobes to 15mm long, fruit a coriaceous capsule to 120mm x 25mm

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Jones & Gray 1977
• Wrigley & Fagg 1979
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• FONZ
• RHS A-Z
• Bodkin
• G. Don
• The Plant List 2
• FA
• Botanicus
• Flora Malesiana
• Kew