Chonemorpha is a genus that consists of twelve species of large evergreen vigorous woody vines with milky sap from India, Ceylon to South East Asia, the Philippines and South China. 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 inflorescence

Inflorescence

An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Strictly, it is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed and which is accordingly modified...

s. Large, corrugated, ovate leaves to 40 cm long, deep glossly 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.

Species

• Chonemorpha antidysenterica
• Chonemorpha fragrans
• Chonemorpha griffithii
• Chonemorpha macrophylla
• Chonemorpha penangensis
• Chonemorpha rheedei
• Chonemorpha verrucosa syn. Trachelospermum verrucosum