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Strophanthus caudatus

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Kurz

Common Names

• Luan e yang jiao niu (Pinyin)
• Ngouang Sang (Laos)
• Yang Nawng (Thailand)
• Voi (Dai) Voi Bong Do (Vietnam)
• Damrey (Cambodia)
• Abu(h)ab-bagin (Philippines)
• Kikija (Indonesia)
• Dok nhan hay (Laos)
• Cây boi boi (Vietnam)
• Voi (Vietnam)
• Akar Dudok Kijang (Malaysia)
• Akar Tandok (Malaysia)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Cambodia
• S. Guangxi - China
• Andaman Islands
• Nicobar Islands - India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Johore
• Malacca
• Perak
• Selangor - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Timor Leste
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Primary or secondary forest
• forest margins
• montane areas
• woodland edge

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jun (China)
• Feb-Apr & Jul-Dec(Indonesia)
• Mar-Dec (Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

• Dec (Vietnam)

Woody glabrous sarmentose tree, shrub or liana to 8m, glabrous lenticellate stems with white tubercles. Glabrous mucronate coriaceous leaves 220mm x 80mm shiny above, matte beneath. Terminal 150mm cymes to 80mm long to 16 flowers with bracts to 8mm long & bracteoles, yellow-white, red or greenish flowers sometimes tinged purple, aging yellow then red to 4mm long with long slender purple tails to 100mm long, limb red, 5 pink sepals 6mm long, 5 petals 70mm long, corolla tube to 15mm long, tube to 26mm, lobes to 255mm with a 255mm tail. Twin divaricate glabrous follicles divergent to 200º to 300mm long x 48mm,

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• Exotica
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• Beentje
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• GBS
• Kew
• Wiart 2
• IFV