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Tinospora cordifolia

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

(Willdenow) Hooker f. & Thomson

Cultivated

C, vegetable

Common Names

• Sin-don-ma-new or Sin-ngo-mani or Sin-sama-nwe (Myanmar)
• Guloncho (Bangladesh)
• Gurach
• Gadancha
• Fa Bro Noi
• Kha Bru Nay (Marma)
• Gurach-ludhi (Chakma)
• Paidda gandi
• Sam rupu (Garo)
• Gulancha
• Tinospora

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• India
• Maldives
• Myanmar
• Sri Lanka
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Dec

Fruiting Times

Herbaceous glabrous woody stem-twiner with aerial roots, corky, grooved stems. Glabrous leaves to 100mm+ long. Cauliflorous, axillary or terminal racemes to 50mm long of yellow flowers, 3 sepals, 6 petals, males in fascicles, females solitary. Small red drupes

Medicinal uses. Leaves used as vegetable

Further References

• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• USNH
• F Indochine
• Tanzamin Ara