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Medicine - Bark paste is applied in fracture.
Bhutan, India, Nepal
Thrives in subtropical biome, at an elevation of 1200-2000 m.
It is shrub erect to climbing reaching heights of several meters.
Stem is woody, cylindrical with a brownish bark.
Leaves are elliptic to oblong-elliptic in shape, measuring 6.5-10 cm in length and 2.6-4.9 cm in width. Upper surface is smooth, while the lower surface is densely covered with silver scales. Leaves have a short stalk of 0.8-1.2 cm.
Flowers are creamish with small brown dots, funnel-shaped, measuring 1.1-1.3 cm in diameter, borne on short shoots in leaf axils with a stalk of 0.3-0.5 cm.
Fruit is oblong-ellipsoid, measuring 1.6-1.8 cm in length and about 1 cm in width.