Antidesma tomentosum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Antidesma tomentosum Blume

Family: Euphorbiaceae

• Indonesia: ki seuheur, tampir kidang (Sundanese).

Indonesia (Java to Sulawesi), Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand.

The fruits are edible.

• Shrub or tree, 5-10 m tall.
• Fruit an ovoid-subfalcate drupe, 11-14 mm × 7-9 mm, red.

In lowland forest.

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