Entada phaseoloides (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Entada phaseoloides (L.) Merr.

Protologue: Philipp. Journ. Sci., Bot. 9: 86 (1914).

Synonyms

• Entada scandens (L.) Benth. (1842) p.p.,
• Entada rumphii Scheff. (1872),
• Entada tonkinensis Gagnep. (1911).

Vernacular names

• Philippines: gogo (Tagalog, Bikol)
• Vietnam: dây bàm bàm, dậu dẹt.

Distribution

From the Pacific through tropical Australia westward to northern Vietnam and southern China; in Malesia recorded for the Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, the Lesser Sunda Islands, the Moluccas and New Guinea.

Uses

In Fiji, the juice of the stem is drunk to relieve rheumatic joint and muscle pains, and for respiratory ailments. A decoction of the stem is also drunk for the treatment of hernia, fish poisoning and gonorrhoea. The juice of the roots is given for ulcers, abdominal muscle spasms and headaches. In areas where E. rheedii and E. phaseoloides occur sympatrically, they are most likely used indiscriminately.

Observations

• A large woody climber, often with flattened and spiral stem; rachis 2 cm long, pinnae 1-2 pairs, 6.5-9 cm long, 1-2(-3) pairs of leaflets per pinna, leaflets elliptical to obovate-elliptical, unequal-sided, 4.5-10 cm × 1.8-6.3 cm, base asymmetrical or somewhat emarginate.
• Inflorescence an axillary spike, 13-30 cm long.
• Flowers sessile or subsessile, male or bisexual, minute, calyx green, broadly cup-shaped, petals green with a reddish base.
• Pod straight to slightly curved, up to 100(-200) cm × 7-15 cm, exocarp woody, endocarp parchment-like.
• Seed suborbicular, flattened, 4-6 cm × 3.3-5 cm, 1 cm thick, brown.

E. phaseoloides is found in a wide variety of habitats, ranging from freshwater swamp and inland from the mangrove up to montane forest, up to 900(-1700) m altitude.

Selected sources

• [17] Agaceta, L.M., Dumag, P.U., Batolos, J.A., Escandor, N.B. & Bandiola, F.C., 1981. Study on the control of snail vectors of fascioliasis; molluscicidal activity of some indigenous plants. Philippine Journal of Animal Industry 36(1—4): 101—111.
• [143] Cambie, R.C. & Ash, J., 1994. Fijian medicinal plants. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia. 350 pp.
• [360] Grant, G., More, L.J., McKenzie, N.H., Dorward, P.M., Buchan, W.C., Telek, L. & Pusztai, A., 1995. Nutritional and haemagglutination properties of several tropical seeds. Journal of Agricultural Science 124(3): 437—445.
• [463] Ikegami, F., Sekine, T., Duangteraprecha, S., Matsushita, N., Matsuda, N., Ruangrungsi, N. & Murakoshi, I., 1989. Entadamide C a sulfur-containing amide from Entada phaseoloides. Phytochemistry (Oxford) 28(3): 881—882.
• [739] Nguyen Van Duong, 1993. Medicinal plants of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Mekong Printing, Santa Ana, California, United States. 528 pp.
• [786] Perry, L.M., 1980. Medicinal plants of East and Southeast Asia. Attributed properties and uses. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States & London, United Kingdom. 620 pp.
• [788] Pételot, A., 1952—1954. Les plantes médicinales du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam [The medicinal plants of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam]. 4 volumes. Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques et Techniques, Saigon, Vietnam.
• [810] Quisumbing, E., 1978. Medicinal plants of the Philippines. Katha Publishing Co., Quezon City, the Philippines. 1262 pp.
• [1038] Verdcourt, B., 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes. Botany Bulletin No 11. Office of Forests, Division of Botany, Lae, Papua New Guinea. 645 pp.
• [1106] Yasuraoka, K., Irie, Y., Takamura, K., Shimomura, H., Hashiguchi, J., Santos, M.J. & Santos, A.T. Jr, 1977. Laboratory and field assessment of the molluscicidal activity of gogo (Entada phaseoloides) against the amphibious snail intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum. Japanese Journal of Experimental Medicine 47(6): 483—487.

Main genus page

• Entada

Authors

• L.J.G. van der Maesen