''Aganosma cymosa'' is a liana that can grow up to in length, pale brownish tomentose. Leaf-stalks are , leaf blade broadly ovate or orbicular, by , base rounded or obtuse, apex acuminate or obtuse, rarely retuse, lateral veins eight to ten pairs. Flowers are borne in many-flowered clusters at branch ends, which are carried on stalks up to . Bracts and bracteoles are very narrowly elliptic, about long. Flower-stalks are about . Calyx with several glands inside margin of sepals; sepals very narrowly elliptic, about , pubescent on both surfaces. Flowers are white, minutely tomentose outside, glabrous at throat; tube shorter than sepals, ; lobes oblong, as long as tube. Disc longer than ovary. Ovary pubescent at apex. Follicles 2, cylindric, to by , yellow hirsute. Seeds oblong, by about , coma . It is native to China ( Guangxi,

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Ecology

''Aganosma cymosa'' is the larval host plant for Malabar tree nymph (''Idea malabarica'').

Vernacular names

Vernacular names include: *

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: chidaralanabilu, chithra leena balli, citrelinaballi *

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: anaikaita, anakkayyerram, tsjeria-pu-pal-valli *

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: manimalaankodi, sellakkodi

Taxonomy

;Varieties # ''Aganosma cymosa'' var. ''conferta'' Hook.f. - S India # ''Aganosma cymosa'' var. ''cymosa'' - Yunnan, Guangxi, Assam, Bangladesh, Indochina # ''Aganosma cymosa'' var. ''elegans'' (G.Don) Hook.f. - S India, Sri Lanka

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q8142876 cymosa Flora of Asia Plants described in 1832