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Poranopsis paniculata

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Roxburgh) Roberty

Common Names

• Yuan zhui bai hua ye (Pinyin)
• Christmas Vine
• Mountain Creeper
• Horsetail Creeper
• Snow Creeper
• Climbing White Lilac
• Bridal Bouquet
• Christ Vine
• Indian Silver Creeper
• Snow-in-the-jungle
• White Corallita (St Eustatius
• St Martin & Barbados)
• Kubhinde Lahara (Nepali)
• Corallita Blanca
• Bridal Wreath
• Christmas-pan (Myanmar)
• December-pan(Myanmar)
• Nwe-nyo (Myanmar)
• Chinese Lace (St Eustatius & St Martin)
• Perles de Noël (Haiti)
• Velo de Novia (Dominican Republic)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Xizang - China
• India
• Java - Indonesia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Pakistan

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• thickets
• scrubland
• disturbed areas

Flowering Times

• Oct-Dec (China)

Fruiting Times

• Mar-Apr (China)

Large twining evergreen slightly woody liana or creeper with greyish to dull yellow indumentum, scented 8mm white to cream bisexual flowers in many-flowered axillary or terminal leafy panicles to 170mm long, pubescent or glabrous fruit capsule tan to brown with darker lines to 7mm long with accrescent sepals, leaves glabrous or pubescent above, hoary or densely pubescent beneath to 90mm x 60mm

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Manandhar 2002
• FOC.
• RHS A-Z
• Llamas 2003
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• VOPR
• USNH
• Botanicus
• Flora Malesiana
• JAA
• SAFIO
• Kew