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PLANTS>>Flowering Plants>>Angiosperms (Magnoliophyta)>>Dicotyledons (Magnoliopsida)>>Magnoliidae>>Ranunculales>>Menispermaceae>>Tinospora>>Tinospora sinensis (Lour.) Merr.>>
Taxon ID: [487], Tinospora sinensis (Lour.) Merr.
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Family Name
Menispermaceae
Taxon Name:
Tinospora sinensis (Lour.) Merr., Sunyatsenia 1: 193 (1934). Press et al., Ann. Checklist Fl. Pl. Nep. : 197 (2000).
Synonyms:
Campylus sinensis Colebr.; Tinospora malabarica (Lamarck) Hook. f. & Thomson; Tinospora cordifolia auct. non L.; Tinospora tomentosa (Colebr.) Hook. f. Thomson.
English Name(s):
Heart leaved moonseed, Gulancha tinospora, Tinospora
Sanskrit Name(s):
Guduchi, Amrita, Amritavalli, Chhinnaruha, Guluchi, Jwarari, Kundali, Madhuparni, Mandali, Nirjara, Somavalli, Tandrika.
Common Nepali Name(s):
Gurjo, Banwar, Chinilaharo, Gurjo –ko- lahara
Vernacular Name(s):
Bhote khair, Kuchrung, Umma lauri (Dolpali), Galay (Newari), Guruj (Musahar).
Other Name(s):
Gilo, Gulanch (Arabian), Gulancha, Guruci (Bengali), Ambarvel, Amrita, Amrutvel, Gilayo, Giloe, Giroli, Gulbel, Guloh, Gurch, Jiwantika (Hindi), Sle tres (Bhutanese), Singomone (Myanmar), Se-tres (Tibet).
Trade Name(s):
Tinospora, Giloe
Life form/Habit:
A large, deciduous climbing shrub.
Habitat:
Lower hilly region
Description:

Twining herb. Leaves broadly ovate, 6-15 x 6-13cm, abruptly acuminate, base cordate, palmately 5-7-veined at base; pubescent, especially beneath. Inflorescences borne on leafless stems, flowers in clusters; males in few-flowered clusters, female flowers usually borne singly along axis. Male flowers, with 6 sepals in two whorls, petals 6. Perianth of female flowers similar to male, staminodes 6; carpels 3, ellipsoid. Drupes red; stone broadly ellipsoid, 6-7mm, rounded at both ends, papillose. 34

Macroscopic characters:
Chromosome number:

(2n = 24, 26)2.

Phenology:

Flowering: March-April                              

Fruiting: April- May

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