Premna peekelii (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Premna peekelii H.J. Lam

Protologue: Verben. Malay. Archip.: 115 (1919).

Vernacular names

• Papua New Guinea: kua (New Britain).

Distribution

New Britain.

Uses

In Papua New Guinea, young leaves are rubbed on the cheek of patients with mumps.

Observations

• A small tree up to 6 m tall.
• Leaves broadly ovate to rotundate, 9-22 cm × 6-16 cm, entire or crenate-toothed, densely tomentose beneath, petiolate.
• Fruit globose, 4-6 mm long.

P. peekelii is common in forest and scrub vegetation.

Selected sources

• [597] Holdsworth, D.K., 1977. Medicinal plants of Papua New Guinea. Technical Paper No 175. South Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia. 123 pp.

Main genus page

• Premna (Medicinal plants)

Authors

• L.B. Cardenas