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Solena amplexicaulis

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Lamarck) Gandhi in Saldanha & Nicolson

Common Names

• Kremsai (Chepang)
• Tirketa (Chepang)
• Kryakata (Chepang)
• Thankaja (Gurung)
• Tsuputu (Gurung)
• Ban Kankri (Nepali)
• Golkankri (Nepali)
• Tangsar Kato (Tamang)
• Mao gua (Pinyin)
• Kudri (India). Phak Tam Nin (Laos)
• Kyet-sha (Myanmar)
• Myauk-tha-kwa (Myanmar)
• Sat-tha-kwa (Myanmar)
• Aroy-hui-walleh (Java)
• Hoa bát (Vietnam)

Geographical Habitats

• N. Australia
• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Jiangxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Xizang
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Perak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• thickets
• hedges
• bamboo forest
• disturbed areas
• secondary growth
• grassland
• montane roadsides
• sandy areas.

Flowering Times

• May-Aug (China)
• Jun (India)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Nov (China)

Herbaceous annual simple-tendril tuberous-rooted vine or creeper with nearly glabrous mucronate leaves, upper leaves 3-lobed 90mm long, dioecious inflorescence, cream or yellow male axillary flowers in corymbs or umbels, glabrous calyx to 5mm long, 4mm across with lobes to 0.4mm long, corolla with 5 lobes, females solitary axillary, 10mm yellow to white flowers, 60 mm x 50mm red-brown oval fruits often yellow-spotted or striped, sagittate leaves glaucescent beneath, leaves variously shaped

Further References

• Huxley 1992
• Manadhar 2002
• FOC
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• USNH
• Botanicus
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• GBS