Bauhinia integrifolia (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Bauhinia integrifolia Roxb.

Family: Leguminosae

Bauhinia cumingiana (Benth.) Fern.-Vill., B. flammifera Ridley.

• Malaysia: akar katup-katup, ketup-ketup, kekatup
• Philippines: banot, agpoi (Tagalog), uplig (Ilokano)
• Thailand: ku-kuu kuu-do (Malay-Pattani), chongkho yaan (Trang), yothakaa (Bangkok).

Southern Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines.

The durable stems are used for tying and the strong bast is made into rope and bowstrings. Juice extracted from the leaves is used for stomach disorders in Johor (Peninsular Malaysia). A decoction of the roots is applied in the Philippines as a post-partum medicine and to treat coughs.

A large-tendrilled liana with rusty-woolly, grooved young branches. Leaves alternate; stipules minute, early caducous; petiole 1-5 cm long; blade ovate to orbicular, 6.8-12.4 cm × 7.5-12.5 cm, base deeply cordate, apex entire, emarginate, shallowly or deeply bifid, 9-11-veined. Inflorescence a more or less dense panicle composed of corymbose racemes; flower buds globose, ovoid or ellipsoid, hypanthium tubular; flowers bisexual; calyx splitting into 2(-3) lobes; petals 5, obovate, 8-15 mm long, claw short, orange turning red; stamens 3, staminodes 2, minute; ovary subsessile, rusty-woolly. Fruit a legume, oblong, up to 20 cm × 5 cm, glabrescent, 5-8seeded, dehiscent. Seed ovateorbicular, about 2 cm in diameter. B. integrifolia is a common lowland species, found up to 1200 m altitude.

19, 20, 47, 49, 100, 115.

M. Brink, P.C.M. Jansen & C.H. Bosch