Gouania leptostachya Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rhamnaceae > Gouania

Characteristics

Shrubs climbing. Young branches glabrous or sparsely pilose. Leaves alternate; stipules lanceolate and caducous, or persistent and becoming a rounded, dentate bract; petiole 1-2.5 cm, sparsely or densely pilose; leaf blade abaxially pale green, adaxially dark green, ovate or ovate-oblong, 5-9 × 2.5-5 cm, papery, abaxially glabrous or sparsely hairy on veins, lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, prominent abaxially, lower lateral veins with 3-5 secondary lateral veins, base cordate, margin crenate-serrate, apex acuminate. Flowers polygamous, 5-merous, solitary or few in fascicles and shortly pedunculate cymes, axillary cymose racemes, and terminal cymose panicles to 30 cm, pilose. Pedicel short, ca. 1 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Sepals ovate-triangular, apex acuminate. Petals white, obovate, hooded, ca. as long as stamens, clawed at base. Disk distinctly pentagonous, antisepalous angles elongated into liguliform appendages. Ovary nearly completely immersed in but not fused with disk; styles short, 3-fid. Capsule 9-10(-13) mm, 1-1.2(-1.8) cm in diam., crowned by remnants of persistent calyx tube, 3-winged, dehiscing into 3 subrounded winged mericarps, wing sometimes thickened at maturity; fruiting pedicel 1-3 mm, glabrous or sparsely pilose. Seeds brownish, shiny, obovoid, ca. 1 × 3 mm. Fl. Aug-Sep, fr. Oct-Dec.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Forests, often climbing on trees, thickets; low to middle elevations.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses material medicinal poison
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Therapeutic use Wounds and injuries (leaf), Pregnancy complications (root), Dermatosis (unspecified), Shampoo (unspecified), Skin (unspecified), Hair-Wash (unspecified)
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Images

Gouania leptostachya unspecified picture

Distribution

Gouania leptostachya world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Indonesia, India, Kenya, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:717482-1
WFO ID wfo-0000708307
COL ID 3H4P9
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Synonyms

Naegelia dubia Gouania tiliifolia Gouania leptostachya var. nainitalensis Gouania leptostachya var. macrocarpa Gouania leptostachya var. tonkinensis Gouania leptostachya Gouania leptostachya var. leptostachya