Ampelocissus cinnamomea (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Ampelocissus cinnamomea (Wallich) Planchon
- Protologue: A.DC. & C.DC., Monogr. phan. 5(2): 403 (1887).
Synonyms
Vitis cinnamomea Wallich (1824).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: akar puding rimba, akar charek puteri, akar sebengkak (Peninsular).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore.
Uses
In Peninsular Malaysia, a decoction of the leaves is used internally and externally to treat cholera and oedema of the legs, and a poultice of crushed leaves is applied to wounds and sore legs, and on the abdomen during childbirth. Young leaves are used in betel-quid. The roots have been used to dye cotton a brownish colour.
Observations
A climber with rather slender, whitish or reddish-woolly stem; leaves simple, ovate-cordate, sometimes 3-lobed, toothed, densely red-tomentose beneath; inflorescence slender, woolly; flowers small, 4-merous; fruit globose to ellipsoid, reddish to purplish. A. cinnamomea is locally common in lowland forest.
Selected sources
121, 528, 789.
Main genus page
Authors
Nguyen Huu Hien
