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Parabaena sagittata

Botanic Family

Menispemaceae

Author

Miers ex Hooker f. & Thomson

Common Names

• Lian rui teng (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• NW. & S. Guangxi
• S. Guizhou
• S. Xizang
• SE. & W. Yunnan - China
• Andaman Islands
• Assam
• Nicobar Islands
• Sikkim - India
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• bushland
• mixed forest streamside
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Apr-May (China)
• May-Jun (Thailand)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Sep (China)
• Sep-Nov (Thailand)

Herbaceous perennial evergreen vine with axillary villous corymbs of 1.7mm long flowers 6 glabrous petals, 6 sepals , sepals villous outside glabrous inside, 8mm or more long glabrous spiny fruits, a drupe, angular stems with white hairs, leaves glabrous above, villous on nerves beneath

Further References

• FOC
• The Plant List
• F Indochine