Adenia macrophylla (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Adenia macrophylla (Blume) Koord.

Protologue: Exkurs.-Fl. Java 2: 637 (1912).

Synonyms

Adenia singaporeana (Wallich ex G. Don) Engl. (1891), Adenia acuminata auct. non (Blume) King.

Vernacular names

• Brunei: akar petjah tutuban
• Indonesia: akar jala, akar talun tungang, sautan (Sumatra)
• Malaysia: akar saut, mentimun paya, pedendang (Peninsular).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, western and central Java, and Borneo.

Uses

A poultice of the leaves is applied in Peninsular Malaysia to headache, and a lotion made from the roots is used against ringworm. In Sumatra, the inner bark has been used for spinning threads for fishing tackle.

Observations

A liana up to 25 m long; leaves entire to slightly lobed, acute-acuminate to rounded and not peltate at base, with 2 glands on semi-orbicular auricles at the apex of the petiole, auricles more or less adnate to leaf blade; flowers narrowly tubiform-urceolate with connate sepals having refexed lobes, corona absent; fruit globular to fusiform. A. macrophylla is a variable species in which 3 varieties have been distinguished; these all occur in Malesia. A. macrophylla occurs in primary and secondary forest up to 1000(-1500) m altitude, also in forest edges, on many different soils.

Selected sources

121, 205, 247, 334.

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Authors

Muhammad Mansur