Antidesma pentandrum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Antidesma pentandrum (Blanco) Merr.

Family: Euphorbiaceae

• Cansjera pentandra Blanco,
• Antidesma rostratum Tulasne.

• Philippines: bignai-pogo (Tagalog), alangnon (Bikol), salagma (Igorot).

The Philippines, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan.

The fruits are eaten raw; they have a sour taste.

• Shrub or small tree with slender yellow-brown twigs.
• Leaves oblong, 5-7 cm × 3-5 cm.
• Female inflorescences spicate, terminal.
• Fruit an ovoid-elliptical drupe, pink to red.

In thickets at low and medium altitudes, up to 1800 m.

• Hui lin Li et al. (Editors), 1975 1978. Flora of Taiwan. 5 Volumes. Epoch Publishing Co., Taipei.

• Merrill, E.D., 1923 1925. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. 4 Volumes. Government of the Philippine Islands, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Bureau of Printing, Manila.

• Monsalud, M.R., Tongacan, A.L., Lopez, F.R. & Lagrimas, M.Q., 1966. Edible wild plants in Philippine forests. The Philippine Journal of Science 95: 431 561.

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