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Vincetoxicum hirsutum

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Wallich) Kuntze

Common Names

• Wa er teng (Pinyin)
• Ha tu o nam (Vietnam)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hunan
• Sichuan Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Java - Indonesia
• Penang
• Perak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• woodland
• thickets
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Apr-Aug (China)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Dec (China)

Rusty-hispid or downy twining subshrub or woody liana with red stems. Mucronate subcoriaceous leaves to 150mm x 75mmwith yellow hairs both surfaces. Many-flowered yellow-green axillary cymes, panicles or umbels to 130mm, of 5mm diameter yellowish-hairy, or yellow-green flowers, pubescent calyx lobes, glabrous yellowish corolla 2mm across with purple-pink hairy lobes to 2.5mm. Glabrous or pubescent paired follicles to 70 mm long x 12mm

Further References

• G. Don
• The Plant List 2
• FOMP
• FOC
• JDH
• de Candolle
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Kew
• IFV