Gymnema reticulatum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Gymnema reticulatum (Moon) Alston

Family: Asclepiadaceae

• Gymnema syringaefolium (J. Decaisne) Boerl.

• Indonesia: sajor pepe, uta mata (the Moluccas)
• Cambodia: voë toahs
• Vietnam: loã ti.

Indonesia, Malaysia and Indo-China.

In the Moluccas young leaves and shoots are eaten raw or cooked.

• Climbing shrub, 2-4 m long, containing white latex in all parts.
• Leaf-blade ovate-oblong or broadly ovate, 5-14 cm × 2-16(-19) cm, subglabrous; petiole up to 6 cm long.
• Fruit a pair of follicles; follicle cylindrical, 9.5 cm × 2.5 cm, conical at apex, thin.

In brushwoods and hedges up to 500 m altitude.

7, 44, 54.