Alchornea parviflora (PROSEA)
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Alchornea parviflora (Benth.) Müll. Arg.
- Protologue: Linnaea 34: 168 (1865).
Distribution
The Philippines (Luzon, Palawan, Leyte, Negros).
Uses
Leaves and fruits are used as fish poison.
Observations
A shrub or small tree; leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, palmately 3-veined, long-petiolate, stipulate; male inflorescence simply racemose, female one simple, many-flowered; flowers small. A. parviflora occurs in secondary forest and scrub vegetation at low and medium altitudes.
Selected sources
121, 621.
Main genus page
Authors
R.H.M.J. Lemmens