Habit; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2008 © Jingxin Liu
Flower; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2008 © Jingxin Liu
Foliage; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2008 © Jingxin Liu
Inflorescence; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2008 © Jingxin Liu
Identifier: 1556
Date of entry: 02.02.2011
Last update: 11.01.2020
Kingdom: Plantae (2625)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2528)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2137)
Order: Solanales (93)
Family: Convolvulaceae (41)(family description)
Genus: Argyreia (3)
Epithet: wallichii Choisy (4)
wallichii => in honor of Dr. Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854), Danish surgeon and botanist who worked in India
Climate: tropical
Habit: liana
Flower colour: violet, pink, white