Bauhinia audax (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Bauhinia audax (de Wit) Cusset

Protologue: Adansonia n.s. 6: 278 (1966).

Bauhinia calycina Ridley (1912) non Pierre ex Gagnep.

• Malaysia: keretup hitam, kelapong, tapak kuda (Peninsular).

The southern part of Peninsular Malaysia (Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Malacca, Johor).

The boiled roots are used as a poultice to treat dropsy.

A liana, young parts glabrescent; leaves broadly ovate to suborbicular up to 8 cm × 8 cm, bifid up to 1/3-1/2, base deeply cordate, apex of lobes obtuse, 9-11-veined, stipules very early caducous; inflorescence a terminal raceme, 10-12-flowered; flower buds fusiform, appressed rusty puberulous, 4-5 cm long, hypanthium campanulate, calyx splitting into 5 free sepals, petals narrowly lanceolate, 2.5-3.5 cm long, clawed, greenish, fertile stamens 3 and staminodes 2; fruit strap-shaped, up to 20 cm × 6 cm, beaked, smooth, 4-7-seeded, dehiscent; seeds orbicular, flattened, up to 2 cm in diameter. B. audax is found in evergreen forest at low altitudes.

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J.W.A. Ridder-Numan