Acacia pluricapitata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Acacia pluricapitata Steudel ex Benth.

Protologue: Lond. Journ. Bot. 1: 516 (1842).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: segani recop bulung (Lampung), garut areuy (Sundanese), got (Javanese)
• Vietnam: sống rắn (Sông Bé).

Distribution

Southern Vietnam, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Java.

Uses

In traditional medicine in Peninsular Malaysia, a poultice of leaves has been applied to the head to treat headache, and in Indonesia the stem juice has been used against sprue.

Observations

A scandent shrub or liana up to 21 m long; leaflets chartaceous, lateral veins of leaflets not forming a reticulate pattern beneath, glands on petiole and rachis obconical or cylindrical; flower glomerules 7-8 mm in diameter; pod linear-oblong, often with constrictions, 7-12.5 cm × 2-2.5 cm. A. pluricapitata occurs in primary and secondary rain forest, often at riversides, also in forest margins and clearings, up to 1000 m altitude.

Selected sources

247, 249, 250, 334.

Main genus page

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Authors

S. Aggarwal