Anomianthus dulcis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Anomianthus dulcis (Dunal) J. Sinclair

Family: Annonaceae

Synonyms

• Anomianthus auritus (Blume) Backer,
• Uvaria dulcis Dunal.

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: kalak asu, kalak mantang, kalak ucet (Java)
• Malaysia: akar pisang-pisang hitam
• Thailand: top huu, teentang, nomwua.

Distribution

Thailand, Indo-China, Peninsular Malaysia, Indonesia (Java).

Uses

The fruit is sweet to eat.

Observations

• A big liana, up to 30 m long.
• Flowers pale yellow. Fruit with numerous separate ripe carpels which are berry-like, globose to cylindrical, up to 2.5 cm long, red.

In forests, thickets and woody grasslands; not very common.

Selected sources

• Backer, C.A. & Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C., 1963 1968. Flora of Java. 3 Volumes. Noordhoff, Groningen, the Netherlands.

• Tyozaburo Tanaka & Sauke Nakao (Editors), 1976. Tanaka's Cyclopedia of Edible Plants of the World. Keigaku Publishing Co., Tokyo. 924 pp.

Authors

P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen