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Tournefortia montana

Botanic Family

Boraginaceae

Author

Loureiro

Common Names

• Zi dan (Pinyin)
• Cay thuoc moi (Vietnam)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• South China Sea Islands
• Yunnan-China
• Assam - India
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Mar-Jul

Fruiting Times

• Mar-Jul

Climbing shrub or undershrub with glabrescent stem. Wrinkled glabrous or strigose leaves 150mm x 60mm. Terminal, rarely axillary, spikes, corymbs or cymes to 150mm long of white or greenish-yellow villous flowers to 14mm with 5 lobes, calyx 3mm long with lobes villous inside, villous white to greenish or yellowish corolla tube to 14mm long strigose outside with 5 lobes 10mm long. Fruit a drupe to7mm diameter.

Further References

• FOC
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• F indochine
• JAA
• IFV