Tinospora crispa

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tinospora crispa, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin — fig. c Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21756061

Tinospora crispa, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi) — fig. d 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151148077

Tinospora crispa, photographed by 葉子 — fig. e 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 125195347

Tinospora crispa, photographed by Tatsutomo Chin — fig. f Tatsutomo Chin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44912617

Tinospora crispa, photographed by Greg III Espera — fig. h Greg III Espera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 13857233

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Native distribution of Tinospora crispa, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Assam	ASS	ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh	BAN
Cambodia	CBD
East Himalaya	EHM
India	IND
Jawa	JAW
Laos	LAO
Lesser Sunda Is.	LSI
Malaya	MLY
Myanmar	MYA
Nepal	NEP
Philippines	PHI
Thailand	THA
Vietnam	VIE
China South-Central	CHC	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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 412 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	11.3 °C	12.5 °C	23.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	28.3 °C	30.1 °C	31.3 °C
Annual rainfall	1,765 mm	2,852 mm	3,983 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	65 mm	210 mm	691 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 412 research-grade observations of Tinospora crispa that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 17 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.

Chasmanthera crispa (L.) Baill.
Cocculus bantamensis Blume
Cocculus crispus (L.) DC.
Cocculus rimosus Blume
Cocculus verrucosus (Roxb.) Wall.
Menispermum bantamense (Blume) Spreng.
Menispermum crispum L.
Menispermum rimosum (Blume) Spreng.
Menispermum tuberculatum Lam.
Menispermum verrucosum Roxb.
Nephroia bantamensis (Blume) Miers
Tinospora gibbericaulis Hand.-Mazz.
Tinospora mastersii Diels
Tinospora rumphii Boerl.
Tinospora thorelii Gagnep.
Tinospora tuberculata (Lam.) Beumée ex K.Heyne
Tinospora verrucosa (Roxb.) W.Theob.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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.