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Urceola rosea

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Hooker & Arnott) D.J. Middleton

Common Names

• Suan ye jiao teng (Pinyin)
• Kua som lom (Laos)
• Dok som lom (Laos)
• Cây lom an de (Laos)

Geographical Habitats

• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hongkong
• Hunan
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• Assam - India
• Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Pahang
• Perak
• Perlis
• Selangor - Malaysia
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane forest
• lowlad & hill forest

Flowering Times

• Apr-Dec (China)
• Apr-Jul (Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Dec (China)
• Sep (Vietnam)

Large glabrous liana to 6m with lenticellate stems, leaves 70mm x 30mm, cymes or panicles 200mm x 15mm with bracts, pink flowers to 6mm long, 5 sepals, 5 petals to 1.4mm, corolla tube to 4mm, lobes to 4mm & heavily spotted blackish paired follicles to 150mm long x 9mm

Further References

• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• F Indochine
• GBS
• Kew
• IFV