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Pericampylus glaucus

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

(Lamarck) Merrill

Common Names

• Xi yuan teng (Pinyin)
• Silong-pugo (Philippines)
• Khua Thom (Laos)
• Sindon-ma-nwe (Myanmar)
• Day loi tien
• Akar Mempening (Malaysia)
• Celuru (Indonesia)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hunan
• Jiangxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Zhejiang - China
• Assam
• Nicobar Islands - India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Johore - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• evergreen forest
• disturbed areas
• shrubland
• primary & secondary forest & thickets
• montane areas
• lowland forest
• swamp forest
• hillock forest

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jun (China)
• Mar-Apr (Thailand)
• All year (India)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Oct (China)
• Aug (Thailand)

Perennial evergreen tuberous glabrescent woolly woody slender vine or liana. Villous mucronate papery leaves, white-hairy beneath to 100mm x 100mm. Axillary yellowish-tomentose pendulous corymbs, umbels, cymes or panicles to 100mm, fragrant flowers, 0.7mm long male & female white or yellow hisute flowers, 9 villous sepals, outer sepals 0.5mm, middle and inner sepals 1mm long, 6 glabrous 0.5mm petals. Red or purple to black drupe to 7mm diameter with 2 rows of pointed projections. Climbing shrub, leaves pubescent beneath, racemose cprymbs of yellowish-green flowers, fruit a blackish-purple berry

Medicinal uses, stems used in tying & basketry

Further References

• FOC
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Flora Malesiana
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• GBS
• Wiart 2
• Plantae javanicae
• Wiart 2