Argyreia maingayi (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Argyreia maingayi (C.B. Clarke) Hoogland

Protologue: Blumea 7: 185 (1952).

Synonyms

Lettsomia maingayi C.B. Clarke (1883).

Vernacular names

• Malaysia: akar terong-terong, akar bunga butang, akar ulan gajah (Peninsular).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia.

Uses

A decoction of the roots is used externally to treat pain in the bones. The fruits are edible, but only slightly sweet.

Observations

A liana with fulvous-hirsute twining stems, later becoming glabrescent; leaves ovate, 9-20 cm × 3.5-11 cm, rounded or shortly attenuate at base, beneath hirsute on veins only; bracts large, up to 4 cm long, persistent; sepals long-acuminate, corolla with limb subentire, 4.5-6 cm long, white with pink, red or purple stripe on the middle of each lobe; fruit ovoid, c. 12 mm long, pinkish. A. maingayi occurs in forest up to 1000 m altitude, also in swampy and riverine forest.

Selected sources

121, 247.

Main genus page

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Authors

Trimurti H. Wardini