Callicarpa longifolia (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
- Protologue: Encycl.1(2): 563 (1785).
Synonyms
- Callicarpa albida Blume (1826),
- Callicarpa blumei Zoll. & Mor. (1846).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: katumpang (Sundanese), meniran sapi (Javanese), dama besoi (Aceh)
- Malaysia: tampang besi, tampang besi puteh
- Papua New Guinea: topapimanua, vuti mata (Gunantuna, East New Britain)
- Vietnam: tử châu trắng, tử châu lá dài.
Distribution
From India eastward throughout South-East Asia to Australia (Queensland); its range possibly extends to Indo-China, China, Bhutan, and Peru.
Uses
In Peninsular Malaysia, the leaves are widely used for poulticing and for rubbing over the body in fever, and are also applied to swellings. A decoction of the leaves is drunk in colic, after parturition and for fever. An infusion of the roots is mentioned as a remedy for syphilis. Various parts, prepared in different ways, are prescribed as a remedy for sprue. In Indonesia, a decoction of the roots is mentioned as a cure for diarrhoea and colic. Pounded leaves are an ingredient for a poultice to mature boils and ulcers. An infusion of the leaves is drunk as a depurative after parturition. Pounded leaves are used to stupefy fish. In East New Britain, the leaves are externally applied on wounds to an ulcerated mouth and to reduce fever, swellings and bruises. The leaves or roots are internally applied to treat diarrhoea.
Observations
- An evergreen shrub or small tree, 2-4(-6) m tall, stem and branches densely stellate hairy, glabrescent.
- Leaves elliptical-oblong, lanceolate or oblong, 7-18 cm × 2.5-6.5 cm, base cuneate, apex with a long point, margin serrate, glandular and tomentose beneath, often slightly brownish-rusty, almost glabrous or sprinkled with very short hairs above, petiole 0.7-2(-2.5) cm long, stellate hairy.
- Cyme densely stellate hairy, glabrescent, primary peduncle shorter than the petiole, 0.3-1.3(-1.7) cm long.
- Flowers subsessile, calyx minutely 4-toothed, 1-1.5 mm long, densely glandular and floccose outside, corolla white, tube 1.5 mm long, lobes broadly ovate, 0.5-1 mm long, with a few glands, pubescent, stamens exserted, ovary globose, with a few hairs at the top, glandular all over, style exserted, 4-6 mm long.
- Drupe globular, 1.5-3 mm in diameter, almost succulent, with a few hairs at the top, glandular, white.
C. longifolia is an extremely variable and polymorphic species often confused with other Callicarpa . It is found in brushwood, thickets, village groves and secondary forest from sea-level up to 1700 m altitude.
Selected sources
- [67] Atkins, S., 1999. 363. Callicarpa japonica: Labiatae. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 16(2): 79—83.
- [74] Backer, C.A. & Bakhuizen van den Brink Jr, R.C., 1964—1968. Flora of Java. 3 volumes. Noordhoff, Groningen, the Netherlands. Vol. 1 (1964) 647 pp., Vol. 2 (1965) 641 pp., Vol. 3 (1968) 761 pp.
- [135] Burkill, I.H., 1966. A dictionary of the economic products of the Malay Peninsula. Revised reprint. 2 volumes. Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Vol. 1 (A—H) pp. 1—1240, Vol. 2 (I—Z) pp. 1241—2444.
- [207] Corner, E.J.H., 1988. Wayside trees of Malaya. 3rd Edition. 2 volumes. The Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 774 pp.
- [407] Heyne, K., 1950. De nuttige planten van Indonesië [The useful plants of Indonesia]. 3rd Edition. 2 volumes. W. van Hoeve, 's-Gravenhage, the Netherlands/Bandung, Indonesia. 1660 + CCXLI pp.
- [418] Holdsworth, D.K., 1977. Medicinal plants of Papua New Guinea. Technical Paper No 175. South Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia. 123 pp.
Main genus page
- Callicarpa (Medicinal plants)
Authors
- J.L.C.H. van Valkenburg & N. Bunyapraphatsara
