Potentilla indica (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Potentilla indica (H.C. Andrews) Wolf

Family: Rosaceae

Fragaria indica H.C. Andrews, Duchesnea indica (H.C. Andrews) Focke.

• Indian strawberry, mock strawberry (En)
• Indonesia: saladren (Java), arben leuweung, arbenan (Sundanese)
• Laos: 'nha ho khay
• Thailand: stroboeri-pa
• Vietnam: dzâu ân', dâu dât.

Throughout southern and eastern continental Asia. In Malesia in Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Lesser Sunda Islands), Peninsular Malaysia and the Philippines. It is occasionally cultivated.

The fruit is edible and juicy but insipid. Sometimes it is cultivated as a cover crop or as an ornamental. It is also used as a vegetable and medicinally it is applied against malaria.

Perennial herb with rosettes and long prostrate stems, producing numerous daughter plants. Fruit a pseudocarp with a soft fleshy globose torus of 0.5-1 cm diameter, red, with spreading to reflexed epicalyx and calyx. In forests, disturbed habitats, often in damp places, at altitudes between 700-2300 m.

10, 20, 26, 37.