Alchornea parviflora (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Alchornea parviflora (Benth.) Müll. Arg.

Protologue: Linnaea 34: 168 (1865).

Distribution

The Philippines (Luzon, Palawan, Leyte, Negros).

Uses

Leaves and fruits are used as fish poison.

Observations

A shrub or small tree; leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, palmately 3-veined, long-petiolate, stipulate; male inflorescence simply racemose, female one simple, many-flowered; flowers small. A. parviflora occurs in secondary forest and scrub vegetation at low and medium altitudes.

Selected sources

121, 621.

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Authors

R.H.M.J. Lemmens