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Xenostegia tridentata

Xenostegia tridentata

Botanic Family: Convolvulaceae
Author: (Linnaeus) D.F. Austin & Staples

Common Names

De xuan hua (Pinyin)
Akar Kurumak (Malaysia)
Kong Kong Pasir (Malaysia)

Geographical Habitats

Angola
Christmas Island
Northern Territory
Queensland
Western Australia - Australia
Bangladesh
Benin
Borneo
Botswana
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Caroline Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Guangdong
Guangxi
Hainan
Hongkong
Taiwan
Yunnan - China
Comoros
Congo
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Gulf of Guinea Islands
India
Java
Lesser Sunda Islands
Maluku
Sulawesi
Sumatra - Indonesia
Ivory Coast
Japan
Kenya
Laos
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Johor
Kelantan
Malacca
Negri-Sembilan
Pahang
Penang
Perak - Malaysia
Mali
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
Nigeria
Philippines
Rwanda
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Solomon Islands
Somalia
Cape Provinces
Free State
Natal
Northern Provinces - South Africa
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Uganda
Vietnam
Zaire
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

All year

Fruiting Times

All year

Herbaceous annual glabrous slightly woody wiry creeper or twiner to 2m or non-twining prostrate herb with angular glabrous stems, axillary 1-3 flowered cymes with bracts to 2mm, or solitary 25mm long cream to white flowers with or without a maroon to brown centre & with yellow bands, glabrous mucronate sepals to 12mm long, yellow corolla with purple or pink eye to 14mm across 25mm long with 4mm lobes. Fruit a papery 4-valved capsule 9mm long with persistent sepals, mucronate leaves glabrous above, glabrous or puberulous beneath, leaves toothed at base to 200mm long, often 2-lobed, downy peduncles

Further References

FOC
NYBG
Bodkin
Nombot
JDH
APNI
The Plant List 2
G. Don
FA
VOPR
FS
Botanicus
F Indochine
Timberlake
FOTA
FOMP
Flora Malesiana
GBS
Kew