Anaxagorea luzonensis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Anaxagorea luzonensis A. Gray

Protologue: U.S. Expl. Exped., Phan. 1: 27 (1854).

Synonyms

Anaxagorea zeylanica Hook. & Thomson (1855).

Vernacular names

• Philippines: dalairo (Tagalog), bagang-aso (Bikol), bobonoyang (Cebu Bisaya)
• Thailand: kam-langwua thaloeng (Prachuap Khiri Khan), chamaep (Trat), puun (Surat Thani)
• Vietnam: quả dầu ngỗng.

Distribution

Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands, Burma (Myanmar), Indo-China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hainan, Thailand, central Java, eastern Borneo, eastern Sulawesi, the Moluccas and the Philippines.

Uses

In the Philippines fresh leaves are used topically to treat rheumatism in the joints. In Thailand chips of the heartwood are traded on local markets for use as a blood tonic and to treat muscle pain.

Observations

A shrub up to 1.5(-4) m tall; leaves elliptical, (3.5-)6-21 cm × 2-8 cm; flowers with outer petals mostly less than 10 mm long, staminodes absent, carpels up to 5; monocarps with beak over 1 mm long. A. luzonensis occurs in lowland forest, primary as well as secondary, up to 600 m altitude.

Selected sources

284, 486, 583, 634, 760.

Main genus page

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Authors

R.H.M.J. Lemmens