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Parsonsia alboflavescens

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Dennsted) Mabberley

Common Names

• Hai nan tong xin jie (Pinyin)
• Ye-padauk (Myanmar)
• Giay ham (Vietnam)
• Aroy Ferrung-utang (Java)

Geographical Habitats

• Northern Territory - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Brunei
• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Hainan
• Taiwan - China
• Andaman Islands
• Assam
• Nicobar Islands - India
• Java
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Ryukyu Islands - Japan
• Laos
• Johore
• Malacca
• Pahang
• Penang
• Perak
• Sabah - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Bismarck Archipelago
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Solomon Islands
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane woods
• thickets
• montane shrubland
• mangroves
• coastal shrubland
• rain forest

Flowering Times

• Apr-Oct (China)
• All year (Java)
• Oct (Solomon Islands)
• Sep (Sri Lanka)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Dec (China)
• Apr-Jul (Philippines)
• Oct (Solomon Islands)

Large woody glabrous rambling or climbing twining liana or shrub with glabrous coriaceous leaves rusty beneath to 175mm x 85mm. Axillary or terminal many-flowered cymes or corymbs to 150mm long with bracts to 6mm & bracteoles to 2mm. 12mm white, pink or greenish or yellow flowers with a pinkish centre, 5 sepals to 3mm long, calyx tube to 0.5mm, pubescent calyx lobes to 1mm, 5 petals to 4mm long, glabrous or pubescent corolla tube to 5mm with villous throat, limb 20mm, lobes to 7mm x 1.5mm Paired dull green glabrous follicles to 195mm x 20mm fluted longitudinally.

Further References

• FOC
• NYBG
• HKU
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Elmer
• FS
• USNH
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• JAA
• GBS
• Kew
• Merrill
• Gleason & Moldenke