Coscinium Fenestratum (Goetgh.)

Coscinium Fenestratum (Goetgh.)

Family : Menispermaceae

Characteristic Features :

Habit : Woody climbers.

Stem : wood yellow, branchlets hoary.

Leaves : 15-18 x 13-15 cm, ovate, apex acuminate, base truncate, 5-7 ribbed, deltoid; petiole 10-12 cm long.

Inflorescence : supra-axillary or cauliflorous.

Flowers : Female flowers mostly from old wood; sepals 6, sericeous; petals 3; ovary densely pilose, staminodes 6.

Fruit : 1or 2 drupes, to 2 cm dia, globose, brown villous, endocarp borny, peduncle to 12 cm.

seed : 1, black, glabrous.

Flowering and fruiting: August-October

Significance : Endangered Medicinal Climber