Anaxagorea javanica (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Anaxagorea javanica Blume
- Protologue: Fl. Javae 66, t. 32, 36A (1830).
Synonyms
Anaxagorea scortechinii King (1892).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: kekapur, sekobang kechil, pali monyet (Peninsular)
- Thailand: champuun (Bangkok, peninsular).
Distribution
Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, western Java and Borneo; possibly also the southern Philippines.
Uses
In Peninsular Malaysia, a decoction of the roots has been given after childbirth as a protective medicine, whereas the seeds are used to preserve clothes, in the same way as camphor. The wood is occasionally used for rafters, and the bark as cordage.
Observations
A shrub or small tree up to 8(-15) m tall; leaves oblong to obovate, 10-22(-29) cm × 3-12 cm; flowers with outer petals mostly more than 10 mm long, inner stamens staminodial, carpels 7 or more; monocarps with beak up to 1 mm long. A. javanica occurs in lowland forest, primary as well as secondary, up to 500(-1100) m altitude. It is a variable species subdivided into 3 varieties; probably collections from the Philippines described as A. radiata Robinson also belong to this species.
Selected sources
121, 583.
Main genus page
Authors
R.H.M.J. Lemmens
