Chonemorpha is a genus that consists of large evergreen vigorous woody vines with milky sap from India, Sri Lanka, to Southeast Asia, the Philippines and South China.[1][2] Growing dormant in sub-tropical and tropical climates and usually losing leaves if temperature gets below 60F. The plants have pubescent to almost tomentose branches, leaves and inflorescences. Large, corrugated, ovate leaves to 40 cm long, deep glossy green, opposite, pale and hairy beneath. Very fragrant, funnel-shaped, showy flowers to 8 cm across with long-peduncled and terminal cymes. Corolla cream with yellow center. Disk cupular with many seeds, ovate-shaped, compressed, with scanty endosperm, with a tuft of hairs at one end, dark brown. The plant is widely grown as a fence cover.[2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Apocynaceae |
| Subfamily: | Apocynoideae |
| Tribe: | Apocyneae |
| Genus: | Chonemorpha G.Don |
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- Species[1]
- Chonemorpha assamensis Furtado - Assam, Bangladesh
- Chonemorpha eriostylis Pit. in H.Lecomte - Yunnan, Guangdong, Vietnam
- Chonemorpha floccosa Tsiang & P.T.Li - Guangxi
- Chonemorpha fragrans (Moon) Alston (Frangipani Vine[4] ) - China (Guangxi, Yunnan, Tibet), Indian Subcontinent, Indochina (its name in Khmer is /vɔə crẹj cruəj/ វល្លិជ្រៃជ្រួយ or /vɔə ʔɑŋkɑt krəhɑːm/ វល្លិអង្កត់ក្រហម[5]), Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines
- Chonemorpha megacalyx Pierre ex Spire - Yunnan, Laos, Thailand
- Chonemorpha mollis Miq. - Java
- Chonemorpha parviflora Tsiang & P.T.Li - Yunnan, Guangxi
- Chonemorpha pedicellata Rao - W Himalayas
- Chonemorpha splendens Chun & Tsiang - Yunnan, Hainan
- Chonemorpha verrucosa (Blume) D.J.Middleton - Guangdong, Hainan, Yunnan, Bhutan, Assam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Indochina
- formerly included
Chonemorpha antidysenterica G.Don = Holarrhena pubescens Wall. ex G.Don
References
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- ^ a b c "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families". Retrieved May 21, 2014.
- ^ a b Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 170 鹿角藤属 lu jiao teng shu Chonemorpha G. Don, Gen. Hist. 4: 76. 1837.
- ^ Ellison, Don (1999) Cultivated Plants of the World. London: New Holland (1st ed.: Brisbane: Flora Publications International, 1995) ISBN 1-85974-256-4
- ^ "PLANT OF THE MONTH – Chonemorpha fragrans, Frangipani Vine – GREAT ON A TRELLIS!". gardenexpressions.com. 9 April 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
- ^ LETI, Mathieu, HUL Sovanmoly, Jean-Gabriel FOUCHÉ, CHENG Sun Kaing, Bruno DAVID, Flore photographique du Cambodge, Paris: Privat, 2013, p. 78.
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