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Psychotria sarmentosa

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Blume

Common Names

• Duk Kai Yan (Thailand)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Brunei
• Cambodia
• Andaman Islands
• Nicobar islands - India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Johore
• Kelatan
• Malacca
• Negeri Sembilan
• Pahang
• Penang
• Perak
• Sarawak
• Selangor - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• woodland
• montane woodland
• hedgerows
• swamp forest
• forest edge
• forest
• lowland forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Jun (Malaysia)

Fruiting Times

Small root-cling glabrous liana, creeper or shrub to 3m with aerial roots, thin coriaceous leaves to 100mm x 45mm pubescent on nerves beneath or glabrous, puberulous terminal corymbs or lax panicles to 50mm across of greenish-white flowers to 5mm long, 5-toothed pubescent calyx, greenish-white 5-lobed corolla villous in mouth, fruit a white drupe to 5mm long

Further References

• HKU
• Thai F.
• Elmer
• The Plant List 2
• FS
• USNH
• JFM
• Botanicus
• FOMP
• GBS
• Kew