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Vallaris solanacea

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Roth) O. Kuntze

Common Names

• Niu zi hua (Pinyin)
• Haper Mali (India)
• Khinbok (Myanmar)
• Nabu-nwe (Myanmar)
• Wat Phnom (Cambodia)
• Var kombor (Cambodia)
• Khua ugen bé (Laos)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Hainan - China
• Assam - India
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane areas
• forests & thickets by streams
• hedges

Flowering Times

• Mar-Jul (China)

Fruiting Times

Climbing pubescent shrub, twining, with lenticellate stems. Glabrous leaves 140mm x 45mm pubescent both surfaces. Axillary cymes or racemes to 20mm long with bracteoles to 7mm long, of fragrant 25mm diameter white to pale yellow flowers to 8mm long, 5 sepals to 25mm long, calyx tube to 0.74mm long, 5 petals 6mm x 6mm, corolla tube to 7mm. Fruit paired follicles to 150mm long x 50mm.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• USNH
• F Indochine
• Kew