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Stauntonia latifolia

Botanic Family

Lardizabalaceae

Author

(Wallich) Wallich

Common Names

• Kole-pot (Lepcha)
• Gophla
• Ba yue gua (Pinyin)
• Dombyem
• Ou kang teng (China)
• Goufla (French)
• Gufla (Nepal)
• Sarem (Nepal)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Guizhou
• Sichuan
• Xizang
• Yunnan - China
• Assam
• Sikkim - India
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Pakistan

Natural Habitats

• Montane forest & forest edges

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jun (Nepal)

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Sep Sep-Oct (Nepal)

Evergreen large woody dioecious twiner, palmate coriaceous leaves with 3-9 glabrous leaflets. Drooping axillary racemes of fragrant 20mm greenish white, male & purple fragrant female flowers, petals to 15mm long. Fleshy berry to 100mm long, red to purple, sausage-shaped.

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• FOC
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• Bodkin
• NYBG
• Mansfeld
• USNH
• Botanicus
• Kew