Bark
Thin, pale brown, papery, peeling, with lenticels; hanging aerial roots
Tinospora sinensis
Syn. Campylus sinensis
IUCN Red List
Not Evaluated
(NE)
Local name
- Heart-leaved moonseed (English)
- Jangli Giloy (Hindi)
Climber type
Evergreen
Deciduous
Family: Menispermaceae
Indicated uses
Medicinal
Edible
Ornamental
Avenue
Other
Flowering & fruiting
Flowering
Fruiting
Key characters
Leaves
Simple, alternate, broadly ovate-cordate, 10 - 15 cm, hairy beneath
Flower
Small, yellowish-green, appearing before the leaves in clusters
Fruit / Seeds
Ovoid red drupe; curved seed
Did you know?
Flora keys separate it from giloy (T. cordifolia): hairy shoots, larger leaves (10 - 15 cm, tomentose beneath) and bigger crimson drupes (about 1.2 cm, with a tubercled stone). It is dioecious, with greenish-yellow racemes arising from the axils of fallen leaves on older stems. The Sanskrit name ‘Kandodbhava guduchi’ is used in classical texts.
Distribution
India (including Gujarat), Sri Lanka, SE Asia and southern China