Friesodielsia biglandulosa (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Friesodielsia biglandulosa (Blume) Steenis

Family: Annonaceae

Synonyms

• Oxymitra biglandulosa (Blume) Scheffer

Vernacular names

• Malaysia: pisang-pisang hitam, mempisang hitam.

Distribution

Indonesia, Malaysia.

Uses

The fruit is edible.

Observations

• Woody climber, 5-10 m long, with red-silky branchlets.
• Ripe carpels oblongoid-ovoid, ca. 1.5 cm long, yellow, on stalks of about 1 cm length.

In lowland forests, rather rare.

Selected sources

• Backer, C.A. & Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C., 1963 1968. Flora of Java. 3 Volumes. Noordhoff, Groningen, the Netherlands.

• Ridley, H.N., 1922-1925. The Flora of the Malay Peninsula. 5 Volumes. Government of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States. L. Reeve & Co., London.

Authors

P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen