Adenia penangiana (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Adenia penangiana (Wallich ex G. Don) W.J. de Wilde

Protologue: Blumea 15: 266 (1967).

Synonyms

Adenia nicobarica (Kurz ex Trim.) King (1903), Adenia parvifolia Pierre ex Gagnep. (1920).

Vernacular names

• Laos: sa ya nang
• Thailand: paak kaa, moak mok, khee kaa (peninsular)
• Vietnam: thư diệp lá nhỏ, dây say nắng.

Distribution

The Nicobar Islands, Indo-China (Laos, southern Vietnam), peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra.

Uses

A. penangiana is used in the Nicobar Islands (India) to treat chest and body pain.

Observations

A small climber or creeper up to 6 m long; leaves entire, peltate at base, with 2 free or contiguous glands at base of leaf blade; flowers campanulate with free, spreading sepals, corona of fine hairs or a finely laciniate membrane present; fruit ellipsoid to oblong. A. penangiana is a variable species in which 2 varieties are distinguished: var. penangiana is found throughout the range of the species, var. parviflora (Pierre ex Gagnep.) W.J. de Wilde in peninsular Thailand and north-western Peninsular Malaysia. A. penangiana occurs both in scrub and forest vegetation, also on limestone, up to 1200 m altitude.

Selected sources

205, 247, 250, 867.

Main genus page

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Authors

Muhammad Mansur