Tinospora esiangkara is a species of plant in the family Menispermaceae. It is native to northern parts of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia.
Description It is a slender woody climber with a stem diameter up to . The leaves are narrowly triangular to ovate, and measure up to long and wide. They are attached to the twigs by a petiole (leaf stem) about long.
Flowers are borne on racemes which emerge from the . Both male and female flowers are about in diameter and have six petals and sepals. This species is dioecious, meaning that male and female flowers are borne on separate plants
The fruit is an ellipsoid drupe about long and orange-red in colour.
Distribution This species is endemic to Australia and occurs in three widely separated populations – Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, where the majority of occurrences are; Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, roughly to the west; and North West Cape in Western Australia, another to the southwest. It grows in seasonally dry tropical forests.
Conservation status This species is listed as least concern under the Queensland Government's Nature Conservation Act. , it has not been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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Map of herbarium collections of this species at the Australasian Virtual Herbarium Observations of this species on iNaturalist Images of this species on Flickriver.com