Elaeocarpus floribundus (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Elaeocarpus floribundus Blume

Protologue: Bijdr. fl. Ned. Ind. 3: 120 (1825).

• Elaeocarpus tahanensis M.R. Henderson (1930).

• Rugged oil-fruit (En)
• Indonesia: hahauwan (Sundanese), kemesu (Javanese)
• Malaysia: medang biawak, medang teja, medang telur (Peninsular)
• Philippines: malangau (Manobo)
• Laos: ma moun¹, moun¹
• Thailand: muat doi (northern), man som (north-eastern), kalon (central)
• Thailand: muat doi (northern), man som (north-eastern), kalon (central).
• Vietnam: côm trâu

From India and Burma (Myanmar) to Indo-China, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Java, Borneo and the Philippines (Palawan).

An infusion of the bark and leaves is used in Sumatra as a mouthwash for inflamed gums. In Malaysia, the bark and leaves are used in a poultice for ulcers and an extract is drunk as a tonic.

• An evergreen tree up to 30 m tall.
• Leaves often crowded at apices of pubescent, glabrescent twigs, oblong, elliptical to obovate, (3-)8-17(-22) cm × (2-)3-7(-9) cm, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margin serrate, petiole 2-4 cm long, stipules early caducous.
• Raceme below the leaves, 7-14(-20) cm long, many-flowered.
• Pedicel 4-8 mm long; sepals lanceolate or narrowly triangular, 4 mm × 2 mm, petals obovate-oblong, 5 mm × 2 mm, gradually dilated from a broad base, with a more or less abruptly widened apical portion, white, stamens 30-40, filaments about 0.5 mm long, anthers 1-2 mm long, ovary shortly hairy, 3-celled, usually 2 ovules per cell.
• Drupe ellipsoid, 3-3.5 cm × 1.5-2 cm, often with yellow dots, stone almost smooth, slightly grooved.

E. floribundus is more frequent in lowland rain forest but also frequent in lower montane forest, found from sea-level up to 1500 m altitude.

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• Elaeocarpus (Medicinal plants)
• Elaeocarpus (Timbers)

• S. Aggarwal