Cyrtandra decurrens (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Cyrtandra decurrens De Vriese

Family: Gesneriaceae

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: daun laur, daun wawo (Ambon).

Distribution

Indonesia (the Moluccas).

Uses

Used as a leafy vegetable in the Moluccas.

Observations

• Herb, 30 cm tall with quadrangular, unbranched stem.
• Leaves opposite, long petiolate, obovate.

In dark humid places. The species is hardly known. It is one of a group of closely allied species including C. bracheia B.L. Burtt, C. erectipila B.L. Burtt and C. subgrandis B.L. Burtt.

Selected sources

21, 44.