Aidia densiflora (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aidia densiflora (Wallich) Masam.

Protologue: Sci. Rep. Kanazawa Univ. 4: 85 (1955).

Randia densiflora (Wallich) Benth. (1861), Aidia wallichiana Tirveng. (1986), Aidia cochinchinensis auct. non Lour.

• Malaysia: jarum-jarum, gading tulang, mata ular (Peninsular)
• Thailand: khem chaang (Phitsanulok), khat khao thong, saeo ton (Chumphon).

India, the Andaman Islands, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, the Riau Archipelago and Borneo.

In Malaysia a decoction of the roots has been used to cure bowel complaints. The timber is used e.g. in house construction.

A small to medium-sized tree up to 20 m tall; leaves glabrous; inflorescence basically a dichasial cyme, flowers on ultimate branches basically 2 at each inflorescence node, bracts widely spaced at each divarication, pedicels densely finely pubescent, filaments glabrous; fruit globose, c. 5 mm in diameter. A. densiflora occurs both in primary and secondary forest.

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Reza Azmi