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Thunbergia fragrans

Botanic Family

Acanthaceae

Author

Roxburgh

Common Names

• White Thunbergia
• Sweet Clock-vine
• Wan hua cao (Pinyin)
• Angel Wings
• Pan-ye-sut (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• India
• Sri Lanka
• Philippines
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hongkong
• Sichuan
• Yunnan-China
• Indo-china
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Sierra Leone
• Thailand
• Australia

Natural Habitats

• Shrublands
• montane thickets
• streamsides

Flowering Times

• Apr
• Sep

Fruiting Times

• Sep

Twining woody slender-stemmed glabrous or hairy-stemmed vine or scandent perennial herb with fragrant or not fragrant solitary axillary solitary or cymes with hairy bracteoles of 50mm white flowers with ruffled lobes, glabrous calyx with 12 teeth, corolla tube to 32mm long, white lobes 26mm x 22mm, also blue, yellow or lavender, fruit a dull green 4-lobed glabrous or puberulous capsule to 25mm long. Fast growing.Leaves glabrous above, puberulous beneath 75mm x 40mm

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• NYBG
• FOC
• Botanicus
• Llamas
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• Elmer
• VOPR
• USNH
• FOTA
• FOMP