Bauhinia fulva (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Bauhinia fulva Blume ex Korth.

Protologue: Verh. nat. gesch. Ned. Bezitt., Bot. 4: 91 (1841).

Phanera fulva (Blume ex Korth.) Benth. (1852).

• Indonesia: areuy kupu-kupu (Sundanese), kupu-kupu (Javanese).

Sumatra and Java.

In Java a decoction of the pounded root is used as a febrifuge, antidiarrhoeal and cough medicine.

A liana up to 15 m long, young branches densely woolly hairy, glabrescent; leaves broadly ovate to orbicular, up to 20 cm × 20 cm, bifid up to 1/3-1/2, base deeply cordate, apex of lobes rounded to acute, 11-13-veined, stipules broadly lanceolate, caducous; inflorescence a terminal or lateral simple or compound, dense corymb; flower buds ovoid, greyish-brown pubescent, 0.5-1 cm long, hypanthium turbinate, calyx splitting into 2-3(-5) free sepals, petals obovate, unequal, 1-2.2 cm long, claws 0.3-0.5 cm long, white, fertile stamens 3, staminodes 2; fruit oblong, up to 20 cm × 5 cm, velvety brown, 4-7-seeded, dehiscent; seeds orbicular, flat, up to 2 cm in diameter. B. fulva is found in open forest and secondary regrowth, also on limestone, from sea-level up to 1000 m altitude, most commonly at 600-1000 m.

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J.W.A. Ridder-Numan