Connarus grandis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Connarus grandis Jack

Protologue: Mal. Misc. 2, 7: 40 (1822).

Connarus ellipticus King (1897).

• Indonesia: akar mambu (Sumatra), areuy ki caang, bangkongan (Sundanese)
• Malaysia: akar nyamok jantan, akar tulang daeng padang, akar chinchin (Peninsular).

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, western Java, Borneo and the Philippines.

A decoction of the bark (probably of this species) is used in southern Sumatra to treat asthma and other chest complaints.

A large liana up to 30 m long, with stem up to 7.5 cm in diameter, rarely a shrub or small tree up to 7 m tall, with bole up to 18 cm in diameter; leaves with 3-5 leaflets, leaflets oblong-ovate to lanceolate-oblong, 5.5-27 cm × 3.5-12.5 cm, glabrous, more or less tripliveined; petals 6-7 mm long, often glabrous; fruit obovoid, 5-7 cm long, with thick and woody pericarp, mucro lateral. C. grandis occurs in primary, secondary and mossy forest, often in more open locations, up to 1400 m altitude.

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