Family: Asclepiadaceae
Plant: A slender climber that twines over shrubs or trails along the ground.
Flowers: Purple-red, 5-petalled, star-like flower 5mm diameter with yellow stigma. The flowers are borne in umbels in the leaf axils. The plant is rarely seen in flower.
Flowering: August-December.
Fruit: Follicle 5-8cm long.
Leaves: Opposite, ovate to lanceolate 2-6cm long and 1-3cm wide, glossy above and with clusters of glands at the leaf bases. Sap is exuded from broken leaves and stems.
Habitat: Rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest in gullies and beside streams.
Features: Climber with opposite leaves. Umbels of purple-red flowers. Sap exuded from leaves and stem.
Name:
Tylophora From Greek tylos = knot and phoros = bearing (referring to its fruit).
barbata From Latin barbata = bearded (referring to its seeds).
|
Type |
Climber/Scrambler |
|
|
Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Cluster |
|
|
Colour(s) |
Red, Purple |
|
|
Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
|
|
Flowering Month |
8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
|
Fruit |
Type |
Other |
|
|
Colour |
Brown |
|
|
Other Features |
- |
|
Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite |
|
|
Type |
Simple |
|
|
Shape |
Oval |
|
|
Length |
Short |
|
|
Margins |
Entire |
|
|
Attachment |
Stalked |
|
|
Other Features |
Soft |
|
Bark |
- |
|
|
Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |
|