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Uvaria littoralis

Botanic Family

Annonaceae

Author

Blume

Common Names

• Zi yu pan (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Brunei
• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Taiwan
• SE. Yunnan - China
• India
• Java
• Lessser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Johore
• Sabah
• Sarawak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Solomon Islands
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• forest & scrub
• montanes areas
• riverside
• lowland forest
• swamp forest

Flowering Times

• Mar-Sep (China)

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Mar (China)

Scandent pubescent shrub or large woody climber with glabrescent twigs. Coriaceous leaves glabrous above, pubescent on nerves beneath to 310mm x 130mm, hairy petioles. Leaf-opposed, terminal or extra-axillary cymes 40mm diameter with tomentose bract to 3mm x 5mm, dark red to purple-brown flowers, sepals & petals rusty-tomentose, sepals to 7mm x 10mm, dark red coriaceous petals to 12mm x 7mm, flower to 40mm across. Glabrous orange fruit to 30mm x 15mm

Further References

• Botanicus
• FOSi
• The Plant List 2
• FOC
• Herklots 1976
• F Indochine
• GBS