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Rourea minor

Botanic Family

Connaraceae

Author

(Gaertner) Alston

Common Names

• Hong ye teng (Pinyin)
• Gikos-gikos (Tag.)
• Khua Ma Vo (Laos)
• Wavatu (Fiji)
• Akar Malam ( Sarawak)
• Baralang (Ibn.)
• Bitog (Ig.)
• Gikos-gikos (Tag.). Hanam-babau (Bis.)
• Kamagsa (Tag.)
• Kamagsa-takilis (Tag.)
• Manindato (Bis.)
• Palo Santo (Sp.)
• Tioa (Bag.)
• Ungalina (Bis.)
• Calayan (Bagobo)
• Dakolay (Manobo)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Queensland - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Benin
• Borneo
• Brunei
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Guangdong
• Hainan
• Hong Kong
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• Congo
• Fiji
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Laos
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Johore
• Sarawak - Malaysia
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• New Caledonia
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Nigeria
• Niue
• Philippines
• Samoa
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Singapore
• Solomon Islands
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Togo
• Tonga
• Uganda
• Vanuatu
• Vietnam
• Wallis-Futuna Islands
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• thickets
• evergreen forest
• bamboo woods
• primary & secondary forests
• riversides
• swamps
• coastal lowland to montane forest

Flowering Times

• Apr-Oct (China)
• Oct (India)
• All year (Singapore)
• Mar (Laos)
• Feb-Mar & Jun-Jul (Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

• May-Mar of following year (China). Jan-Dec (Thailand)
• All year (Singapore)
• Aug (Laos)

Tall perennial evergreen glabrous large woody liana or climbing or erect shrub or tree with glabrescent stems. Glabrous leaves, coriaceous leaflets glaucous beneath, imparipinnate leaves 1-19 leaflets to 250mm x 100mm. Terminal & axillary many-flowered densely fulvous-tomentose or glabrous racemose panicles or racemes to 200mm long of 10mm diameter, fragrant white or yellow flowers, calyx to 3mm, 5 villous sepals to 4mm long, 5 glabrous petals to 8mm long. Infructescence to 80mm long, glabrous curved follicles green maturing black to 30mm long x 15mm with persistent glabrous sepals.

Further References

• Mobot
• FOC
• NYBG
• Botanicus
• JPS
• JDH
• FOSi
• The Plant List 2
• BF
• AFS
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• FOTA
• Flora Malesiana
• P. Chai
• GBS
• Merrill
• Elmer
• FV
• Wiart 2
• RSNRV