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Vincetoxicum indicum

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Burman f.) Mabberley

Common Names

• Anantamul (India)
• Khan Thu Li (Thailand)
• Country Ipecac
• Upa-tha-ka (Myanmar)
• Vomitting Swallow-wort

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• India
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Madagascar
• Johore
• Pahang - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Riverside
• coastal
• secondary forest
• hedges
• thickets

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Slender downy or glabrous perennial twining shrub. Mucronate leaves glabrous above, white tomentum beneath 100mm x 45mm. Axillary compound umbels or cymes to 20mm with bracts, of yellow, pink or greenish-purple flowers, purple within 10mm plus, hispid sepals, calyx with pubescent lobes, 5 yellow or dull pink corolla lobes hairy or glabrous, follicles to 100mm long x 10mm,

Further References

• JDH
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• GBS
• Mobot
• Thai f.
• USNH
• Kew
• APS