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Parthenocissus semicordata

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Wallich) Planchon

Common Names

• Simal Jel (Gurung)
• Barkhe Lahara (Nepali)
• Charchare (Nepali)
• Parenu (Nepali)
• Gungap (Tamang)
• San ye di jin (Pinyin)
• Himalayan Virginia Creeper

Geographical Habitats

• Anhui
• Gansu
• Guangdong
• Guizhou
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Sichuan
• Shaanxi
• Taiwan
• Xizang
• Yunnan-China
• Bhutan
• India
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Sikkim
• Thailand
• Indonesia
• Perak - Malaysia
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• mixed forest
• shrubland
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• May to Jul (China)
• Sep (Thailand)

Fruiting Times

• Augp-Oct (China)
• Jan-Dec (Thailand)

Woody perennial evergreen tendril liana with 4-6 branched tendrils, leaves ternate, red-villous beneath, bristly-serrated, 3-5 glabrous dentate mucronate leaflets to 150mm long, greenish flowers with 2mm petals in leaf-opposed panicles or corymbs to 80mm x 60mm, red peduncles, 4 petals to 5mm long, fruit a black berry to 8mm diameter

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• GWC 1997
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• JAA
• GBS
• Fedde
• J.S. Gamble
• Bailey 1976
• Mobot
• IFV