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Rourea mimosoides

Botanic Family

Connaraceae

Author

(Vahl) Planchon

Common Names

• Semilat (Singapore)
• Akar Malam (Sarawak)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Brunei
• Cambodia
• Andaman & Nicobar Islands - India
• W. Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Johore
• Sarawak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• woodland
• primary forest
• bamboo forest
• shrubland
• swamps
• disturbed areas
• riversides
• coastal
• lowland & hill forest

Flowering Times

• Jan-Dec (Malesia
• Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Dec (Malesia)

Large woody tendril liana to 50m+, rarely an erect shrub, young stems pubescent,imparipinnate coriaceous puberulous leaves pubescent beneath, leaves with 5-51 leaflets, terminal leaflets to 35mm x 15mm. Axillary racemes to 120mm long densely fulvous-tomentose, puberulent sepals, glabrous petals to 6.5mm long, curved yellowish-brown fruit to 17mm long x 7mm

Further References

• HKU
• Mobot
• FOSi
• JFM
• AFS
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana
• P. Chai
• GBS