无冠倒吊笔 Wrightia religiosa

  • Scientific Name: Wrightia religiosa (Teijsm. & Binn.) Benth. ex Kurz
  • Ref: J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 46:258. 1877
  • Synonym: Echites religiosus Teijsm. & Binn.
  • English Common Name: water jasmine
  • Chinese Common Name: 无冠倒吊笔 wúguàn dǎodiào∙bǐ, 泰国倒吊笔 Tàiguó dǎodiào∙bǐ
  • Family: Apocynaceae
  • Genus: Wrightia
  • Distribution: S Guangdong [Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam]
  • Photo: 06/21/2009, South China Botanical Garden, Guangdong
Shrubs to 3 m tall. Branchlets thin, terete, often with many lateral short branchlets, minutely puberulent. Petiole 2-4 mm; leaf blade elliptic, ovate, or narrowly oblong, 2.5-7.5 X 1.5-3 cm, pubescent along midvein; lateral veins 5-7 pairs. Cymes often on short, few-leaved branches, short pedunculate, 1-13-flowered. Pedicel 1.5-2 cm, thin, finely hairy. Sepals ovate, ca. 1.5 mm. Corolla white, subrotate; tube 3-4 mm, glabrous; lobes ovate, ca. 7 mm, densely pubescent on both surfaces; corona obsolete. Stamens inserted at mouth of corolla tube. Ovaries free. Follicles linear, free, 12-17 cm. Seeds narrowly fusiform, ca. 8 mm, coma to 3.5 cm. Fl. all year. 2n = 22. (Flora of China)

Leave a comment