Aganosma cymosa is a liana that can grow up to 10m (30feet) in length, pale brownish tomentose. Leaf-stalks are NaNcm (-2,147,483,648inches), leaf blade broadly ovate or orbicular, NaNcm (-2,147,483,648inches) by NaNcm (-2,147,483,648inches), base rounded or obtuse, apex acuminate or obtuse, rarely retuse, lateral veins eight to ten pairs. Flowers are borne in many-flowered clusters at branch ends, which are carried on stalks up to 6cm (02inches). Bracts and bracteoles are very narrowly elliptic, about 1cm (00inches) long. Flower-stalks are about 5mm. Calyx with several glands inside margin of sepals; sepals very narrowly elliptic, about 1cm (00inches), pubescent on both surfaces. Flowers are white, minutely tomentose outside, glabrous at throat; tube shorter than sepals, NaNmm; lobes oblong, as long as tube. Disc longer than ovary. Ovary pubescent at apex. Follicles 2, cylindric, to 30cm (10inches) by NaNcm (-2,147,483,648inches), yellow hirsute. Seeds oblong, NaNcm (-2,147,483,648inches) by about 5mm, coma NaNcm (-2,147,483,648inches). It is native to China (Guangxi, Yunnan), Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, and Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam).[1] [2] [3]
Aganosma cymosa is the larval host plant for Malabar tree nymph (Idea malabarica).
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