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Tetracera sarmentosa

Botanic Family

Dilleniaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Vahl

Common Names

• Xi ye teng (Pinyin)
• Khua Hau (Laos)
• Koros(s)awael (Sri Lanka)
• Chong-ko

Geographical Habitats

• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Yunnan-China
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Johore - Malaysia
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Myanmar
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Andaman Islands
• Assam
• Bengal - India
• Sri Lanka
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• forest
• shrubland
• lowland & hill forest
• coastal.

Flowering Times

• Apr-May (China) May-Aug

Fruiting Times

Evergreen mostly glabrouswoody liana or shrub with scabrid branches. Glabrous scabrous serrated mucronate reddish leaves to 130mm x 55mm. 250mm axillary or terminal panicles of 10mm diameter white flowers, 5 sepals outer two 2mm x 1.5mm, inner three 4mm x 3mm, 5 petals. Glabrous fruit an orange follicle to 10mm x 6mm.

Further References

• FOC
• Mobot
• net
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• Merrill