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Vincetoxicum auriculatum

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Royle ex Wight ) Kuntze

Common Names

• Latikoseli (Nepali)
• Niu pi xiao (Pinyin)
• Kalikosa or Dhungmo Nyung (Nepal)

Geographical Habitats

• Bhutan
• Sichuan
• Xizang
• Yunnan - China
• N. India
• Nepal
• NE. Pakistan

Natural Habitats

• Open ground
• bushland on mountains
• forest

Flowering Times

• Jun to Aug (China) Jun-Aug (Nepal)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Dec (China) Aug-Sep (Nepal)

Scrambling slender puberulous or glabrous twining shrub with leaves pubescent on main veins, leaves greenish-white sometimes tinged pink. Racemes, umbels or corymbs to 230mm of 10mm with 10-19 flowers, whitish, pale yellow, pale pink or purple flowers with short tubes, lobes to 8mm, fruit a glabrous follicle to 100mm long x 10mm.

Further References

• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• JDH
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Kew
• Academia WWF Nepal