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Stemona tuberosa

Botanic Family

Stemonaceae

Author

Loureiro

Common Names

• Da bai bu (Pinyin)
• Non Tai Nhak (Laos
• Thai)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• Assam - India
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku - Indonesia
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• thicket
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jul (China)

Fruiting Times

Woody based twiner to 4m with tuberous roots and angular stems, leaves to 195mm x 140mm. Axillary racemes with bracts to 15mm long, 75mm green flowers, tepals green with purple veins or yellow & red to 50mm x 10mm, green fruit capsule to 70mm x 30mm

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana
• Kew
• Envis