Gnetum tenuifolium (PROSEA)
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Gnetum tenuifolium Ridley
- Family: Gnetaceae
Vernacular names
- Indonesia, Malaysia: dagun, mentada, akar putat
- Thailand: muei-nok (Pattani).
Distribution
Peninsular Thailand and Malaysia, Sumatra.
Uses
The seeds are eaten boiled. The root is cooked and eaten, and a decoction of it is drunk after childbirth.
Observations
A slender liana with leaves up to 24 cm long. Inflorescences erect simple spikes, 2-4 cm long. Fruit nutlike, ellipsoid, 2 cm long, furrowed lengthwise, stalked, crowded in dense spikes. The root is chalky white inside. In rain forests at low altitudes.
Selected sources
10, 93.
