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Secamone elliptica

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

R. Brown

Common Names

• Ji yu teng (Pinyin)
• Cork Vine
• Corky Milk Vine

Geographical Habitats

• New South Wales
• Northern Territory
• NE. Queensland
• Western Australia - Australia
• Cambodia
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands - Indonesia
• Johore
• Penang
• Perlis
• Pulau - Malaysia
• New Caledonia
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Timor Leste
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Bushland
• woodland
• mixed forest
• thickets
• coastal
• riverside
• dunes
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Jul-Aug (China)
• Apr-May (Thailand)
• May-Jun (Indonesia)
• Jun-Aug(Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Dec (China)
• Oct-Nov (Thailand)

Perennial evergreen glabrous woody twining slender liana or erect shrub with ferrugineous hairs on zigzag branches, tomentose peduncles & pedicels, glabrous or hairy leaves to 75mm x 25mm. Extra-axillary cymes or corymbs to 50mm x 50mm of 3mm yellow or greenish-yellow flowers with 3mm glabrous lobes, calyx lobes dotted black, petals to 2.5mm long, glabrous corolla tube to 4mm diameter. Paired glabrous divaricate 80 mm x 10mm follicles

Further References

• FOC
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• Australia Tropical Rainforest Plants
• G. Don
• FA
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• GBS
• Kew