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Sphenodesme involucrata

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

(C. Presl) B. L. Robinson

Common Names

• Five-points Climber
• Yan Duk
• Zhua xie chi teng (Pinyin)
• Ka-nwe (Myanmar)
• Nwezat (Myanmar)
• Akar (Sarawak)
• Kulizat (Thailand)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Guangdong
• Hainan
• Taiwan - China
• India
• Sabah
• Sarawak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• montane areas
• thickets
• woodland

Flowering Times

• Nov-Jun (China)
• Dec-Jan (Assam-India)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Jun (China)
• Feb-Mar (Assam-India)

Large twining climbing hairy shrub to 16m with tetragonal rusty-tomentose branchlets, becoming glabrescent & corky. Coriaceous leaves to 150mm x 80mm glabrescent above & hairy beneath. Axillary & terminal hairy cymes or panicles to 300mm long with 6 white bracts to 45mm x 18mm turning purple-red, 6mm white or pale yellow flowers, 7 per head, turning purple-red, 5-6 lobed calyx to 1mm x 5mm with pubescent lobes, 5-6 lobed pale yellow corolla becoming pink to deep red to 9mm long with puberulous lobes. Fruit a glabrous capsule or drupe to 8mm diameter with accrescent calyx

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• P. Chai
• GBS
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew