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Pottsia laxiflora

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Blume) Kuntze

Common Names

• Lian zi teng (Pinyin)
• Diamen roun (Laos)
• So crom (Vietnam)
• Tembelekan (Javanese)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hongkong
• Hunan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Assam - India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malacca
• Penang
• Perak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• evergreen forest
• disturbed areas
• shrubland secondary growth
• montane woodland.

Flowering Times

• Apr-Aug (China)
• May-Jun (Thailand)
• May-Aug (Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Oct (China)

Tall perennial evergreen twining glabrous liana to 25m or shrub with stems puberulent when young. Slightly coriaceous glabrous leaves 110mm x 60mm pubescent on nerves beneath. Lax axillary & terminal racemes, corymbs or cymes to 250mm x 100mm with bracts, to 1mm long 8mm white, yellow, purple or pink flowers, 5 sepals 1mm long, calyx tube 1mm long, reddish corolla, 5 petals to 7mm long, corolla tube 8mm long. Paired follicles to 550mm x 5mm.

Further References

• FOC
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• Kew
• Wiart 2
• IFV