Acalypha caturus (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Acalypha caturus Blume

Family: Euphorbiaceae

• Indonesia: hanjawan (West Java), goprak (Java), kalangkongan (Madura), kayu in cios (Sulawesi)
• Philippines: malasapsap (Tagalog), ambugtunong (Bisaya), migtanong (Bicol).

Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, the Moluccas), Borneo and the Philippines. Possibly also in New Guinea.

In the Minahasa (Sulawesi) cooked leaves are eaten.

• Shrub or small dioecious tree, 5-14 m tall.
• Leaves broadly ovate, cordate or triangular, 7.5-27 cm × 3-22 cm.

In mixed or young forest and in plantations of tree crops like coffee, up to 1400 m altitude.

3, 4, 7, 44.