Chonemorpha

Chonemorpha is a genus that consists of large evergreen vigorous woody vines with milky sap from India, Sri Lanka, to Southeast 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 glossy 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
 * 1) Chonemorpha assamensis Furtado - Assam, Bangladesh
 * 2) Chonemorpha eriostylis Pit. in H.Lecomte - Yunnan, Guangdong, Vietnam
 * 3) Chonemorpha floccosa Tsiang & P.T.Li - Guangxi
 * 4) Chonemorpha fragrans  (Moon) Alston (Frangipani Vine ) - China (Guangxi, Yunnan, Tibet), Indian Subcontinent, Indochina (its name in Khmer is /vɔə crẹj cruəj/ វល្លិជ្រៃជ្រួយ or /vɔə ʔɑŋkɑt krəhɑːm/ វល្លិអង្កត់ក្រហម ), Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines
 * 5) Chonemorpha megacalyx Pierre ex Spire - Yunnan, Laos, Thailand
 * 6) Chonemorpha mollis Miq. - Java
 * 7) Chonemorpha parviflora Tsiang & P.T.Li - Yunnan, Guangxi
 * 8) Chonemorpha pedicellata Rao - W Himalayas
 * 9) Chonemorpha splendens Chun & Tsiang - Yunnan, Hainan
 * 10) Chonemorpha verrucosa  (Blume) D.J.Middleton - Guangdong, Hainan, Yunnan, Bhutan, Assam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Indochina

Chonemorpha antidysenterica G.Don = Holarrhena pubescens Wall. ex G.Don
 * formerly included