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Rubia cordifolia
Rubia cordifolia
- Botanic Family
- Rubiaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
Common Names
- Indian Madder
- Munjeet
- Lusasa (Kihehe)
- Dzoe (Tibet) Rak Da
- Ny Tze Ka
- Dama
- Mula
- Hana (China)
- Mangkit (Philippines)
- Qian cao (Pinyin)
- Lin sheng qian cao (Pinyin)
- Kurumaba-akane (Japan)
- Tsushima-akane (Japan)
Geographical Habitats
- Afghanistan
- Angola
- Bangladesh
- Borneo
- Burundi
- Anhui
- Fujian
- Guangdong
- Guangxi
- Guizhou
- Heilongjiang
- Henan
- Hubei
- Hunan
- Jiangsu
- Jiangxi
- Jilin
- Liaoning
- S. Shaanxi
- Sichuan
- Taiwan
- Xizang
- Yunnan
- Zhejiang - China
- Greece
- Assam - India
- Java
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Honshu
- Khazakstan
- Kyushu - Japan
- Kenya
- Korea
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mongolia
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Sakhalin Oblast - Russia
- Rwanda
- Somalia
- Cape Province
- Natal
- Orange Free State
- Transvaal - South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Vietnam
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Semi-evergreen forest
- montane forest
- forest edge
- grassland
- forest edge
- thickets
Flowering Times
- Jul-Sep (China)
- Oct-Jan (India)
- Oct (Japan)
Fruiting Times
- Late summer-Autumn Sept-Nov (China)
Sticky twining perennial herbaceous climber or creeper with tetragonous branches, angles of stems winged, prickly stems & leaves, thick scabrous leaves 40mm x 20mm, villous beneath. Axillary & terminal cymes or hispid corymbs, whorls or panicles to 200mm long with bracteoles to 2mm long of 1mm cream to yellow flowers 3.5mm diameter, tube to 1.5mm, calyx tube to 0.75mm, 5 puberulent petals 1mm long, corolla tube 0.2mm long, 5-lobed corolla, 5mm orange or 8mm purple-black glabrous berries
Further References
- Huxley 1992
- Mobot
- FSEG
- FOC
- The Plant List 2
- BF
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- FOJ
- Kew