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Reissantia indica

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

(Willdenow) N. Hallé

Common Names

• Bian shuo teng (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Bangladesh
• Benin
• Borneo
• Botswana
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Guangdong
• Hainan
• Yunnan - China
• Congo
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Ivory Coast
• Laos
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Pahang
• Penang
• Perlis - Malaysia
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Namibia
• Nigeria
• Philippines
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Singapore
• Northern Provinces - South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Timor Leste
• Togo
• Uganda
• Vietnam
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Dry semi-deciduous forest
• shrubland
• disturbed forest
• woodland
• riverside
• montane woodland
• coastal forest
• lowland forest.

Flowering Times

• May-Jul (China)
• Apr (India)
• Jan-Mar (Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Oct (China)

Glabrous woody liana, tree or shrub often scandent or scrambling with tetragonal glabrous branches, dentate thinly coriaceous leaves to 130mm x 65mm, axillary dichasia or cymes to 60mm with triangular bracts to 0.75mm, of scented pale brown to greenish-white or yellowish flowers to 1mm, papillose calyx with lobes to 0.6mm long, 5 sepals 0.7mm x 0.3mm, 5 yellowish-white papillose petals 2mm long x 0.75mm, , simple tendrils, twining , with 3 separate glabrous leathery green 2-valved follicles 55mm x 15mm, small samaras

Further References

• Mobot
• FCP
• FOC
• Jstor
• Botanicus
• FI
• S. Gamble
• The Plant List 2
• BF
• USNH
• F Indochine
• FOTA
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• FOL