Hodgsonia macrocarpa (PROSEA)
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Hodgsonia macrocarpa (Blume) Cogn.
- Family: Cucurbitaceae
Synonyms
Hodgsonia capniocarpa Ridley.
Vernacular names
- Kadam seed (En)
- Indonesia: akar kepayang, akar kepawang (Java), bilungking (Sumatra)
- Malaysia: akar kepayang, kelepayang, terua
- Cambodia: kh'ingz
- Laos: khùa 'mak khing
- Thailand: making (northern), man-khrua (central), payae (Pattani)
- Vietnam: sén, beo, dai hái.
Distribution
India, Thailand, Indo-China, southern China, western Malesia.
Uses
The seeds are eaten cooked or roasted. The seeds also produce an edible oil which is also used in traditional medicine. The leaves are used to cure ulceration of the nose, and a decoction is drunk against fever. The plant is also used in dyeing.
Observations
Dioecious climbing herb, attaining 20-30 m length. Leaves trilobed, 15-25 cm long and wide. Fruit a subglobose berry, 7-12 cm × 10-16 cm, red-brown, 10-12-ridged. Seeds 6-12, thick, compressed ovoid, 3-7 cm × 3 cm × 1-2 cm. In forests and woody savannas, up to 1700 m altitude. In China yield of oil is 2.5 kg/plant per year.
Selected sources
10, 20, 26, 51.
