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Stephania japonica
Stephania japonica
- Botanic Family
- Menispermaceae
- Author
- (Thunberg) Miers
Common Names
- Snake Vine
- Batulpate (Nepali)
- Qian jin teng (Pinyin)
- Tape Vine
- Shanaze-nwe (Myanmar)
- Taw-saung-mega (Myanmar)
- Yele (Myanmar)
- Hasu-no-ha-kazuru (Japan)
- No-ses-sore-vol (Vanuatu)
Geographical Habitats
- Lord Howe Island
- New South Wales
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Territories
- Queensland - Australia
- Bangladesh
- Borneo
- Cambodia
- Anhui
- Fujian
- Hainan
- S. Henan
- Hubei
- Hunan
- Jiangsu
- Jiangxi
- Sichuan
- Taiwan
- Zhejiang - China
- Marquesas
- Society Islands - France
- India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Maluku
- Sulawesi
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Honshu - Japan
- Korea
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- New Caledonia
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Sri Lanka
- Thailand
- Timor Leste
- Tonga
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
Natural Habitats
- Moist ground trailing on hedges
- bushland
- disturbed areas
- shrubland
- thickets
- forests
- riverside
Flowering Times
- Spring-Summer (China)
- Jan-Dec (Indonesia)
- Jul-Sep (Japan)
Fruiting Times
- Autumn-Winter (China)
- Jan-Dec (Indonesia)
Slightly woody glabrous dioecious slender vine or herbaceous stem-twiner with tuberous root, striate branches, leaves to 170mm x 140mm. Male cauliflorous or axillary cymes or umbels to 90mm, male flowers white, yellowish or orange with 6-8 sepals to 1.25mm, 3 or 4 glabrous petals to 1mm long, female inflorescence similar, 8mm yellowish flowers, fruit a red 10mm x 8mm ovoid drupe with 4 rows of hooked projections. Tall vine with red fruit
Medicinal uses
Further References
- Jones & Gray 1977
- Manadhar 2002
- Mobot
- FOC
- Flora Malesiana
- The Plant List 2
- USNH
- Botanicus
- FOJ
- JAA