Telosma cordata(Burm.f.) Merr.

WFO wfo-0001104276 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Telosma cordata, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. a Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / 2021-08-22 / obs. 152447403
Telosma cordata, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. b Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 133078697
Telosma cordata, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. c Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 152447485
Telosma cordata, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. d Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 133078773
Telosma cordata, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. e Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 152447530
Telosma cordata, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. f Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 133078784

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Telosma cordata is native: China Southeast, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China SoutheastBangladeshCambodiaIndiaLaosMyanmarPakistanThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Telosma cordata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bangladesh BAN ASIA-TROPICAL
Cambodia CBD
India IND
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Pakistan PAK
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China Southeast CHS ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 15 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Apocynum odoratissimum Lour. ex Pritz.
  • Asclepias cordata Burm.f.
  • Asclepias odoratissima (Lour.) Roxb.
  • Cynanchum dioscoridis Thunb.
  • Cynanchum odoratissimum Lour.
  • Marsdenia glaziovii (E.Fourn.) Spellman & Morillo
  • Oxystelma ovatum P.T.Li & S.Z.Huang
  • Pergularia limbata Wall. ex Wight
  • Pergularia minor Andrews
  • Pergularia odoratissima (Lour.) Sm.
  • Pergularia viridis Buch.-Ham. ex Wight
  • Stephanotella glaziovii E.Fourn.
  • Telosma minor (Andrews) Craib
  • Telosma odoratissima (Lour.) Coville ex N.E.Br.
  • Telosma odoratissima Coville

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.