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Streptocaulon wallichii

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Wight

Common Names

• Cay hang chô ô (Vietnam)
• Akar Sarapahat (Malaysia)
• Akar Timah Ketam (Malaysia)

Geographical Habitats

• Kelantan
• Penang
• Perak
• Perlis - Malaysia
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge

Flowering Times

• Oct (Philippines)

Fruiting Times

Shrubby pubescent twining climber with lenticellate stems. Subcoriaceous leaves downy above, fuscus-velvety beneath to 125mm x 50mm. Pubescent panicles or cymes 50mm x 35mm with reddish-brown hairs & bracts to 1mm, of red flowers, glabrous or hairy calyx with lobes to 2mm across, glabrous corolla, tube with lobes to 1.8mm. Tomentose follicles to 75mm x 7.5mm.

Further References

• JDH
• G. Don
• FS
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• GBS
• Mobot
• de Candolle
• Kew