Ardisia fuliginosa (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Ardisia fuliginosa Blume

Protologue: Bijdr. fl. Ned. Ind.: 692 (1826).

Distribution

Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the Lesser Sunda Islands.

Uses

Dried sap from the stem is heated together with coconut milk and Curcuma rhizomes and used in western Java to treat scabies.

Observations

A shrub or small tree up to 5 m tall; leaves elliptical to lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, 8-24 cm × 2.5-10 cm, glabrescent but often pubescent on veins below, secondary veins 9-12 pairs; inflorescence a short axillary raceme; corolla 2.5-5 mm long, whitish or pinkish; fruit c. 5 mm in diameter. A. fuliginosa occurs in forest up to 1750 m altitude.

Selected sources

62, 334, 378, 896.

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Authors

R.H.M.J. Lemmens