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Sphenodesme pentandra
Sphenodesme pentandra
- Botanic Family
- Lamiaceae
- Author
- (Roxburgh )Jack
Common Names
- Akar Sulong (Singapore)
- Akar Lintang Ruas (Malaysia)
- Akar Sulang (Malaysia
- Singapore)
- Akar Tenak Rimau (Malaysia)
- Akar Kĕtu-kĕtu
- Bunga Kĕrtas
- Ear-stud Climber
- Lentang Ruas
- Paper Flower
- Shan Pak Tang
Geographical Habitats
- Bangladesh
- Borneo
- Cambodia
- S. & E. China
- Assam
- Nicobar Islands - India
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Laos
- Johore
- Kedah
- Malacca
- Negeri-Sembilan
- Pahang
- Penang
- Perak
- Selangor
- Terengganu - Malaysia
- Myanmar
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Thailand
- Vietnam
Natural Habitats
- Woodland edge
- riverside
- lowland forest margins
- thickets
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Nearly glabrous or pubescent woody climbing shrub or liana to 10m+ with quadrangular lenticellate branchlets, green bracts. Glabrous coriaceous mucronulate leaves to 180mm x 90mm with hairy veins beneath. Axillary & terminal puberulous panicles or racemes to 375mm long with 6 glabrous bracts to 30mm x 9mm, fragrant blue or purple hairy flowers, 10-ribbed 5-6 toothed glabrous calyx to 7mm long with tube 5mm x 5mm, bluish corolla villous inside with 5 glabrous lobes, tube to 5mm long. 3-winged hairy drupe to 4mm long with persistent calyx to 8mm long
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Mobot
- Wiart
- JDH
- The Plant List 2
- FS
- FOMP
- GBS
- Gleason & Moldenke
- Kew