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Tinospora crispa

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) J.D. Hooker & Thomson

Cultivated

C, medicine

Common Names

• Bo ye qing niu dan (Pinyin)
• Makabuhai (Philippines)
• Khua Khau Ho (Laos)
• Bandol Pet (Cambodian)
• Bo Ra Phet (Laos
• Thai)
• Day Ki Ninh (Vietnamese)
• Andawali
• Akar Hidu (Sarawak)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• S. Yunnan - China
• India
• W. Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands - Indonesia
• Laos
• Sarawak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Open forests
• shrubland
• wasteland
• forest margins

Flowering Times

• Spring Jan Mar

Fruiting Times

• Summer

Glabrous, woody deciduous vine to 15m, with long aerial roots, stems becoming prominently tuberculate, glabrous leaves to 250mm x 240mm. Cauliflorous glabrous male inflorescence, pseudo-racemes to 200mm long, of 2.5mm green flowers, pale green sepals outer ones to 1.5mm long, inner ones to 4mm long, 6 petals to 2mm long, female inflorescence to 60mm long, 30mm x 15mm orange-red drupe with conspicuous dorsal ridge, warty stems. Climbing shrub, glabrous leaves, axillary panicles. Twining shrub, coriaceus leaves, axillary racemes or panicles

Medicinal uses, poison

Further References

• FOC
• Mobot
• Flora Malesiana
• FOSi
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• GBS
• P. Chai