Chinese: Yuan zhui bai hua ye
Synonym:
Porana paniculata; Dinetus paniculatus.
Region: Xizang, Yunnan, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan.
Habitat: tropical and subtropical; various soils, forests, thickets, scrub, open plains, often around human habitation; altitude 0 to 2000 m.
BotanyHerb; climbers; indumentum grayish to dull yellow.
Stem: puberulent, glabrescent.
Leaves: cordate-circular; 7 to 16 cm, by 5 to 15 cm; smooth to rugulose, abaxially silvery villous; petiole 2 to 10 cm.
Inflorescence: panicle crowded; bracts cordate; pedicel 2-4 mm, elongating in fruit. Flowers: 4 to 7 mm; flowering October to December.
Sepals: lanceolate-linear, flat or concave, equal, 1 to 2 mm, tomentose-villous abaxially; calyx tan, reddish, or pale brown, loosely clasping; outer 3 sepals elliptic-oblong to narrowly ovate, 1.6 to 2.4 cm X 7 to 9 mm, puberulent, margin free.
Corolla white to cream, narrowly funnelform, limb 3 to 7 mm in diameter, 5-lobed.
Stamens included, ± equal; filaments glabrous.
Gynoecium: disc absent or ringlike; ovary glabrous; style obsolete; stigma subsessile. Fruit: tan to brownish with darker lines, globose-ellipsoid, 5-6(-7) X 4-5 mm, pubescent, apiculate.
Seeds: dark brown; globose-ellipsoid; 4 to 6 mm, by 3 to 5 mm, glabrous.