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Sphenodesme involucrata is a small woody climber (liana) in the mint family, native to wet tropical forests from India and Myanmar through Southeast Asia to southern China and Taiwan. It is a wild forest plant, not a commonly grown garden or houseplant.
Sphenodesme involucrata is a species of small liana in the genus Sphenodesme (family Lamiaceae). It is found in: India, Assam, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaya, Borneo, Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan and central Vietnam: where it may be called bội tinh tong bao.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sphenodesme involucrata 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.
