| | | Streptolirion volubile Edgew., Proc. Linn. Soc. London. 1: 254. 1845. | | Commelinaceae | |
Description: Climbing herb. Leaves alternate, cordate-ovate, 5–15 cm long; leaf scheat 1–4 cm long; apex caudate; petioles 5–17 cm long; blade sparsely pubescent. Inflorescence panicle-like cyme of several cincinni, opposite leaves, each cincinnus with 2–10 flowers. Involucral bracts leaflike, white, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.5–6 cm long. Flowers white; sub-sessile, basal cincinnus bisexual, others usually male. Sepals 3, boat shaped with acute apex, 3–8 mm long. Petals 3, linear 0.5–1 cm long. Stamens 6; filaments 5–9 mm long, densely yellow cream hairy; anther ellipsoid, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 3-loculed, glabrous; ovules 2 per locule; style 4–7 mm long; stigma capitate. Fruit a capsule, 3-valved, ellipsoid, 0.5–1 cm long, beaked; seeds 2, kidney-shaped, 4–5 mm long, rugose, hilium linear. | | | |
| Distribution: India, Bhutan, S China, Korea, Japan, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and northern Thailandf, edges of montane forest, 1,300–2,500 m | |
Thai name: ผักปลาบเครือ (Phak plap khruea) | |
Photos: Preecha Karaket (Doi Inthanon, Chiang Mai) | |
References:
| Hong, D. and R.A. Filipps. (2000). Commelinaceae. In Flora of China Vol. 24: 20. |
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