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Porana volubilis

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Burman

Common Names

• Bridal Creeper
• Kodeik-sein (Myanmar)
• Pyinthit-pan (Myanmar)
• Saung-daw-gu (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Thailand
• Timor Leste
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• forest edge
• foresat
• coastal.

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Large woody glabrous climber or twining subshrub with terminal panicles to 180mm long, of fragrant 10mm white flowers with yellow lobes 10mm x 10mm, 5 sepals villous outside 5mm long, white corolla with lobes to 4mm & tube to 5mm, fruit enclosed in persistent calyx, a mucronulate capsule 4mm x 4mm, glabrescent stems with white warts, mucronate glabrous leaves 90mm x 60mm

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• JDH
• JPS
• G. Don
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana
• Kew