About Azima sarmentosa (Blume) Benth. & Hook.fil.
Azima sarmentosa is a flowering plant species belonging to the Salvadoraceae family. It takes the growth form of a shrub or tree, and is native to Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam), southern Hainan, the Philippines, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi, and New Guinea. This species was first described as Actegeton sarmentosus by Carl Ludwig Blume in 1827. In 1876, George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker moved the species into the genus Azima, renaming it Azima sarmentosa.
