Connarus semidecandrus (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Connarus semidecandrus Jack

Protologue: Mal. Misc. 2, 7: 39 (1822).

Connarus mutabilis Blume (1850), Connarus neurocalyx Planchon (1850), Connarus gibbosus Wallich ex Hook.f. (1876).

• Indonesia: akar kalat (Sumatra), simbo krah (Kalimantan), kunit wawakas imbolay (Sulawesi)
• Malaysia: akar nyamok, akar tulang daeng, akar membur (Peninsular)
• Philippines: sandalino (Tagalog), kamot (Pampangan)
• Cambodia: am pous, loum puos, loum pouh
• Laos: houn hai¹, ‘sop ‘sêp (Vientiane)
• Thailand: thopthaep khruea (central), khaang daeng (northern), maak song (peninsular)
• Vietnam: dây lốp bốp.

The Andaman Islands, Burma (Myanmar), Indo-China (Cambodia, Laos and southern Vietnam), Thailand, throughout Malesia (except eastern Java and several of the Lesser Sunda Islands), Palau and the Solomon Islands.

In Peninsular Malaysia and Thailand, a decoction of the leaves is used to treat chest-complaints, and the roots to treat fever. Leaves and stems possess laxative, anthelmintic and antipyretic properties, and they are used in the treatment of parasitic diseases in children. In the Philippines, a decoction of the root is taken internally to treat amenorrhoea and as a uterine tonic. In Cambodia, the roots are used in the treatment of bubonic plague. Young shoots are eaten as a vegetable in Indo-China and the Moluccas. The stems are used for binding purposes.

A large liana, scandent or creeping shrub, or small tree, with stem up to 10 cm in diameter; leaves with 3-7(-11) leaflets, leaflets elliptical to lanceolate, 4-25 cm × 2-9 cm, glabrous or minutely pubescent below; petals 2.5-7 mm long, outside glabrous except margins and apex, inside glandular pubescent; fruit obliquely pyriform to semi-ellipsoid, 1.5-4 cm long, with thin and coriaceous pericarp, mucro apical or nearly apical. C. semidecandrus occurs in primary and secondary forest, often in more open locations, but also in thickets in grassland, on dry as well as swampy soils, on granite as well as limestone, up to 1100 m altitude.

121, 173, 247, 249, 250, 331, 760.

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