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Pileostegia viburnoides

Botanic Family

Hydrangeaceae

Author

J.D. Hooker & T. Thomson

Common Names

• Guan gai teng (Pinyin)
• Evergreen Schizophragma

Geographical Habitats

• Anhui
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• India
• Ryukyu Islands - Japan
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• forest margins
• streamsides

Flowering Times

• Jul-Aug (China) Late Summer
• Autumn

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Dec (China)

Evergreen aerial root climbing shrub with fragrant terminal panicles to 150mm across of 9mm white flowers, petals to 2.5mm, fruit a capsule to 4mm x 3mm. Branchlets, leaves & inflorescence glabrous

Further References

• Bean 1950
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• Mobot
• Chudian 2001
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• JAA