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Stictocardia tiliifolia

Stictocardia tiliifolia

Botanic Family: Convolvulaceae
Author: (Desrousseaux) H. Hallier

Common Names

Xian ye teng (pinyin)
Pilikai (Hawaiian)
Tambervel
Alalag
Abubo
Taung-kazun-gyi (Myanmar)
Liane Gros Boudin (Guadeloupe)
Liane Gros Marron (Guadeloupe)
Bois-patate Marron (Guadeloupe)
Gros Boudin (Martinique)
Liane d'argent bâtard (Martinique)
Puhipuhi
Aupuhi

Geographical Habitats

Christmas Island
Northern Territory
Queensland - Australia
Bangladesh
Borneo
Hainan
Taiwan - China
Caroline Islands
Cook Islands
Fiji
Society Islands
Tubuai Island - France
India
Java
Lesser Sunda Islands
Maluku
Sulawesi
Sumatra - Indonesia
Ryukyu Islands - Japan
Malaysia
Mariannas
Myanmar
New Caledonia
New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Samoa
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Tonga
Howland-Baker Islands - USA
Vanuatu
Vietnam

Natural Habitats

Coastal thickets
forest
riverside
montane areas
shrubland
volcanic areas

Flowering Times

Oct-Nov (China)
Oct-Mar (India)
All year (Indonesia)
Aug (Marquesas)

Fruiting Times

Jan (China)

Large nearly glabrous woody twiner or creeper or herb, stems clothed with silvery down with axillary 1-4 flowered glabrous cymes or umbels with bracts of 100mm reddish-purple, yellow flowers rarely white to 100mm x 50mm with a dark centre, silky outside, coriaceous sepals 20mm long villous or puberulent outside, pink, purple or white corolla glabrous outside to 100mm x 75mm with purple centre, tube 60mm long x 6mm diameter, limb 75mm diameter. mucronulate glabrescent leaves glabrous above, downy & dotted with black beneath to 170mm x 150mm, reticulated with red feathered nerves 180mm x 130mm, reddish glabrous stems . 35mm diameter globose glabrous 4-valved beaked brown berry or capsule 20mm high with accrescent sepals.

Further References

Sturtevant 1919
Herklots 1976
Huxley 1992
P & R 1997
NYBG
FI
FOC
FOH
JDH
The Plant List 2
G. Don
VOPR
USNH
Botanicus
F Indochine
FOTA
FOMP
JAA
GBS
SAFIO
Kew