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Tinospora sinensis

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

(Loureiro) Merrill

Common Names

• Guruj (Mooshar)
• Banwar (Nepali)
• Gurjo (Nepali)
• Galay (Newari)
• Se-tres (Tibetan)
• Zhong hua qing niu dan (Pinyin)
• Gulancha (India)
• Amrita (Sanskrit)
• Guluchi (Sanskrit)
• Jwarari (Sanskrit)
• Giloe (Hindi)
• Gulancha (Hindi)
• Jiwantika (Hindi)
• Dây Thân Thông (Vietnamese)
• Bora Phet (Vietnamese)
• Bandaul Pech (Vietnamese)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• S. Guangdong
• S. Guangxi
• S. Yunnan - China
• India
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Moist shady areas
• forests
• thickets
• wasteland
• hedgerows

Flowering Times

• All year (India)

Fruiting Times

• All year (India)

Large deciduous twining vine with 5mm yellowish-green or whitish tomentose flowers in axillary racemes to 100mm long, 6 petals, glabrous sepals. fruit a red drupe to 10mm x 6mm. Twiner, young parts whitish hairy, glabrous or tomentose 3-lobed leaves, villous stems with lenticels. Twining shrub, leaves villous beneath, lateral racemes of pale green flowers, glabrous fruit ripening reddish

Further References

• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• Mansfeld
• The Plant List 2
• BF
• Botanicus
• F Indochine