Ardisia ridleyi (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Ardisia ridleyi King & Gamble

Protologue: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 74(2): 148 (1906).

• Malaysia: lutut ayam, peluruh, pingarut (Peninsular).

Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Sumatra.

In Peninsular Malaysia a decoction of the plant is used internally to treat fever and after childbirth.

A shrub or small tree up to 5 m tall; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 8-20 cm × 3.5-4.5 cm, with scattered minute rusty scales and sparsely scattered glandular dots, secondary veins 10-14 pairs; inflorescence an umbellate raceme, terminal on branchlets; corolla c. 4 mm long, pinkish; fruit 7-8 mm in diameter, sparsely striate and gland-dotted. A. ridleyi occurs in lowland evergreen forest up to 1200 m altitude; it is uncommon.

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R.H.M.J. Lemmens