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Tetrastigma scariosum

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Blume) Planchon

Common Names

• Bing guo ya pa teng (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Cambodia
• Hainan - China
• Java
• SE Sulawesi - Indonesia
• Laos
• Kedah
• Selangor - Malaysia
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

• Apr-Aug (China)

Fruiting Times

• May-Nov (China) Dec (Cambodia)

Robust woody dioecious tendril liana with simple tendrils, glabrous stems to 18mm diameter with shredding bark. Coriaceous glabrous crenate divided 5-7 foliolate leaves, terminal leaflets to 81mm x 48mm, lateral leaflets to 79mm x 45mm, coriaceus leaflets serrated at apex. Axillary cymes or umbels to 100mm, pistillate flowers to 4mm long. Infructescence to 30mm long, fruit a berry to 15mm long x 11mm.

Further References

• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• GBS
• IFV