Tetrastigma dubium (Lawson) Planch. (syn: Vitis dubia Lawson (ambiguous synonym); Vitis oxyphylla Wall. (ambiguous synonym); Vitis oxyphylla Wall. ex Prain (ambiguous synonym)); Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin, Mandalay, Sagaing), Nepal, Sikkim, peninsular Malaysia
(Kedah, Perak, Penang Isl., Kelantan, Selangor, Johor), Bhutan, India (Assam,
Darjeeling, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura,
Meghalaya), Nepal, Bangladesh as per Catalogue of Life; Climbers; branches slender, smooth, reddish; tendrils simple, ca. 15 cm long. Leaves digitately compound, ternate; petiolules ca. 1-1.5 cm long, puberulous; petioles ca. 5-10 cm long; lamina of terminal leaflets ca. 9-14 x 5-8 cm, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, rounded to acute at base, acute at apex, margins distantly cuspidate-serrate; lamina of lateral leaflets ca. 6-8 x 3-5 cm, oblique at base, margins and apex as in terminal leaflets. Inflorescences divaricately branched, corymbose cymes, ca. 7-10 cm long, pubescent; peduncles ca. 2-4 cm long, longer due to suppression of lateral branches, pubescent; calyx distinctly 4-toothed, pubescent; petals ca. 1 mm long, oblong-ovate, inflexed; with a dorsal spur at apex, pubescent; stamens ca. 0.7 mm long; disc thin, membranous, forming a ring encircling lower half in immature fruits; ovary ca. 0.5 mm across, conical, glabrous; stigma sessile. Berries ca. 0.6-0.9 cm across, globose. Seeds 1-2, ca. 0.6 x 0.5 cm, obovoid, horizontally wrinkled. Flowering & Fruiting: September-February In primary forests, shaded and moist places; 300-500 m; common. (Attributions- French Institute of Pondicherry from India Biodiversity Portal)
Location : Aizawl, Mizoram Date : 03-05-2018 Habit : Climber Habitat : Wild Pl. check species available at Images are available at species pages. It looks like Tetrastigma henryi Gagnep.. Pl. check Tetrastigma henryi as per suggestion of ... at Though there is no distribution there as per Keys in Flora of Bhutan at Tetrastigma lead me to Tetrastigma dubium (Laws.) Planch.
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