Tarlmounia

Perennial plants. Stems scandent, young branches terete, white, sericeous. Leaves simple, alternate, petiolate, sericeous with horn-shaped hairs, lamina elliptic, margin entire or serrate, apex acute rounded, base rounded, subcoriaceous. Capitulescences terminal or axillary. Capitula discoid, homogamous, pedunculate, florets bisexual and fertile. Involucres imbricate, in 3–4 series, 3–4 mm long, glandular without hairs. Corollas purple to white, actinomorphic, corolla lobes 5. Anthers 5, syngenesious. Styles 2-branched, inner surface covered with stigmatic papillae, outer surface covered with sweeping hairs on the outer surface reaching below style bifurcation. Achenes turbinate, 4–7-ribbed, ca. 2 mm long, glandular without hair, carpopodium present. Pappus in 2 series of bristles, persistent, the outer ones are shorter than the inner ones. Pollen echinate, 3-colporate, with micropuncta. One species is recognized in Thailand.

Tarlmounia is a plant genus in the family Asteraceae. The sole species is Tarlmounia elliptica (syn. Vernonia elliptica and V. elaeagnifolia), native to India, Burma and Thailand and naturalised in southern Taiwan and Queensland, Australia. Common names include curtain creeper, vernonia creeper and parda bel.