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Medicinal plant of Akha in Northern Thailand
ACANTHACEAE
Thunbergia
EOL Text
Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Climber
United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Global Range: Common and widespread species, introduced to the the Neotropics from Asia. 0-1000 m alt.
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Distribución: En áreas de vegetación disturbada a través de Puerto Rico. También en Vieques, St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas y Tortola. Oriunda de la India y Sri Lanka, pero naturalizada en los trópicos.
Bosques Públicos: Maricao, Piñones, Río Abajo y Tortuguero.
Distribution: In areas of disturbed vegetation throughout Puerto Rico. Also on Vieques, St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, and Tortola. Native to India and Sri Lanka, but naturalized in the tropics.
Public forest: Maricao, Piñones, Río Abajo, and Tortuguero.
"Very common along forest borders, roadsides and scrub jungles from 400-1200m. India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, Indo-China and W.China."
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Global Distribution
Indo-Malesia and Australia
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
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Distribution: Indo-China, Burma, Nepal, India, N. Australia and W. China; introduced and naturalized in the neotropics.
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Himalaya (Nepal, Sikkim), India, Ceylon, Burma, Indo-China, W. China.
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Flower
Solitary, axillary; white, fragrant. Flowering throughout the year.
Fruit
A depressed-globose capsule, scabrid, extended into a sword-shape apical beak; seeds 4, globose, reticulate. Fruiting throughout the year.
Field tips
Branchlets sparsely sericeous. Leaves 3-5-nerved from base.
Leaf Arrangement
Opposite-decussate
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Broadly elliptic-ovate
Leaf Apex
Acute-apiculate
Leaf Base
Truncate-subcordate
Leaf Margin
Entire-distantly serrate
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Rights holder/Author | Keystone Foundation, India Biodiversity Portal |
Source | http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/231387 |