- Chonemorpha
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Chonemorpha Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Asterids Order: Gentianales Family: Apocynaceae Subfamily: Apocynoideae Tribe: Apocyneae Genus: Chonemorpha Species See text.
Chonemorpha is a genus that consists of twelve species of large evergreen vigorous woody vines with milky sap from India, Ceylon to South East Asia, the Philippines and South China. 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.
Species
- Chonemorpha antidysenterica
- Chonemorpha fragrans
- Chonemorpha griffithii
- Chonemorpha macrophylla
- Chonemorpha penangensis
- Chonemorpha rheedei
- Chonemorpha verrucosa syn. Trachelospermum verrucosum
References
- 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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