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Stephania japonica var. discolor
Stephania japonica var. discolor
- Botanic Family
- Menispermaceae
- Author
- (Blume) Forman
Common Names
- Tape Vine
- Tong ye qian jin teng (Pinyin)
- Nimusha (India)
- Nimukha (India)
- Daï moi
- Kua tom luèt
- Taung-kya (Myanmar)
Geographical Habitats
- New South Wales
- Queensland - Australia
- Borneo
- Cambodia
- S. Guizhou
- Guangxi
- E. & SW. Sichuan
- NE. & S. Yunnan - China
- Andaman Islands
- Assam
- Nicobar Islands - India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Maluku
- Sulawesi
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Ryukyu Islands - Japan
- Laos
- Penang - Malaysia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Thailand
- Vietnam
Natural Habitats
- Sparse forest
- coastal dunes
- wasteland
- thickets
- hedges
- evergreen forest
- disturbed areas
- shrubland
- lowland & hill forest
- forest edges
- streamsides
- riverside rain forest
Flowering Times
- Feb-Apr (Australia)
- May-Aug (Thailand)
- Jul-Aug (India)
Fruiting Times
Woody pubescent or glabrous vine or annual slender twining tuberous vine to 10m with mucronate leaves puberulous beneath, yellowish-green hairy flowers to 1.5mm with 6 glabrous sepals & 3 glabrous petals in axillary umbels, glabrous red drupe to 6mm sharply transversely ridged. Climber-creeper, twining, leaves hoary-tomentose beneath, flowers in axillary umbels. Woody pubescent twining vine or annual vine with peltate leaves, abaxially hirsute leafblades, red fruit to 6mm, yellowish-green flowers to 1.5mm
Further References
- Jones & Gray 1977
- Wrigley & Fagg 1979
- FOC
- JAA
- NYBG
- BF
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- The Plant List 2
- Flora Malesiana
- GBS
- USNH