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Wattakaka volubilis

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Linnaeus f.) Stapf

Common Names

• Nan shan teng (Pinyin)
• Tita-kunga (India)
• Ngouan Mou (Laos)
• Gwedauk-nwe (Myanmar)
• Lakun (Hindi)
• Bu óc sa (Laos)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Java
• Maluku - Indonesia
• Laos
• Pulau - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• NE. Pakistan
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Timor Leste
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane forest
• hedges
• thickets
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Apr-Sep (China)
• Apr-May (Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Dec (China)

Tall woody stem-twining liana to 12m with lenticellate stems. Glabrescent coriaceous leaves downy above to 180mm x 170mm, mealy or hoary shrubby vine with drooping many-flowered axillary cymes, umbels or fascicles to 90mm with bracts, of 4.5mm diameter yellowish-green or white & pink fragrant flowers, pubescent calyx lobes to 3mm long, corolla tube to 3mm long, corolla lobes glabrous outside 12mm x 12mm, villous inside, corolla campanulate. Yellow follicles to 150mm long x 40mm with rusty-mealiness.

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• FOC.
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• Kew
• APS