Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Micrechites lancifolius

Micrechites lancifolius is a tropical climbing vine (liana) in the dogbane family, native to western Malesia. It needs warmth, humidity and a sturdy support to climb on.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Water when the top of the soil begins to dry, and keep it evenly moist during active growth.
Soil
Well-draining, rich potting mix with added bark or perlite.
Temperature
20–30 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. Malesia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Micrechites lancifolius is a species of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, It is a liana native to Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, and Sumatra.

The species was first described as Vallaris lancifolia by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1882. In 2018 it was placed in genus Micrechites by David John Middleton and Tatyana Livshultz.

Other Micrechites plants

Micrechites

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Micrechites lancifolius by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…