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Tetrastigma serrulatum

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Roxburgh) Planchon

Common Names

• Arthunge (Chepang)
• Baragaunlo (Nepali)
• Barkhyu Lahara (Nepali)
• Charchare Lahara (Nepali)
• Chatake (Nepali)
• Cuchi
• Nepali)
• Makuri (Nepali)
• Pani Lahara (Nepali)
• Thulo Makure Lahara (Nepali)
• Chijlangdu (Tamang)
• Ghugi (Tamang)
• Hukki (Tamang)
• Landu Bramji (Tamang)
• Xia ye ya pa teng (Pinyin)
• Saibra (Myanmar)
• Zaibra (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Temperate Himalaya
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hunan
• Sichuan
• Xizang
• Yunnan - China to Indo-china
• India
• Bhutan
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Moist open areas
• woodland
• shrubland
• forest
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Jul to Sep Mar-Jun (China) Apr-May (India)

Fruiting Times

• Nov to Feb Jul-Oct (China)

Slender herbaceous tendril liana with simple or bifid tendrils, ridged branchlets & 5-foliolate leaves with awned serratures, purple-black berries to 12mm diameter, flowers yellowish in axillary racemes or umbels to 80mm long, adventitious roots

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Huxley 1992
• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus
• JAA
• GBS