Chonemorpha

Chonemorpha
Chonemorpha fragrans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Apocynoideae
Tribe: Apocyneae
Genus: Chonemorpha
G.Don
Synonyms[1]

Chonemorpha is a genus that consists of large evergreen vigorous woody vines with milky sap from India, Sri Lanka, to Southeast Asia, the Philippines and South China.[1][2] Growing dormant in sub-tropical and tropical climates and usually losing leaves if temperature gets below 60F. The plants have pubescent to almost tomentose branches, leaves and inflorescences. Large, corrugated, ovate leaves to 40 cm long, deep glossly green, opposite, pale and hairy beneath. Very fragrant, funnel-shaped, showy flowers to 8 cm across with long-peduncled and terminal cymes. Corolla cream with yellow center. Disk cupular with many seeds, ovate-shaped, compressed, with scanty endosperm, with a tuft of hairs at one end, dark brown. The plant is widely grown as a fence cover.[2][3]

Species[1]
  1. Chonemorpha assamensis Furtado - Assam, Bangladesh
  2. Chonemorpha eriostylis Pit. in H.Lecomte - Yunnan, Guangdong, Vietnam
  3. Chonemorpha floccosa Tsiang & P.T.Li - Guangxi
  4. Chonemorpha fragrans (Moon) Alston - China (Guangxi, Yunnan, Tibet), Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines
  5. Chonemorpha megacalyx Pierre ex Spire - Yunnan, Laos, Thailand
  6. Chonemorpha mollis Miq. - Java
  7. Chonemorpha parviflora Tsiang & P.T.Li - Yunnan, Guangxi
  8. Chonemorpha pedicellata Rao - W Himalayas
  9. Chonemorpha splendens Chun & Tsiang - Yunnan, Hainan
  10. Chonemorpha verrucosa (Blume) D.J.Middleton - Guangdong, Hainan, Yunnan, Bhutan, Assam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Indochina
formerly included

Chonemorpha antidysenterica G.Don = Holarrhena pubescens Wall. ex G.Don

References

  1. 1 2 3 "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families". Retrieved May 21, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 170 鹿角藤属 lu jiao teng shu Chonemorpha G. Don, Gen. Hist. 4: 76. 1837.
  3. ↑ Ellison, Don (1999) Cultivated Plants of the World. London: New Holland (1st ed.: Brisbane: Flora Publications International, 1995) ISBN 1-85974-256-4
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