Thunbergia laurifolia, the laurel clockvine or blue trumpet vine, is native to India (Starr et al., 2003) and the Indomalaya ecozone, the species occurs from Indochina to Malaysia (Schonenberger, 1999). It is locally known as kar tuau in Malaysia and rang jeud (รางจืด) in Thailand (Chan & Lim, 2006).