Kibatalia blancoi (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Kibatalia blancoi (Rolfe ex Stapf) Merr.

Protologue: Philipp. Journ. Sci., Bot. 17: 309 (1920).

Family: Apocynaceae

• Kickxia blancoi Rolfe ex Stapf (1905),
• Kickxia merrittii Merr. (1909).

• Philippines: laniting gubat (Tagalog), pasnit (Iloko), baguibonlas (Panay), laniti itim (Rizal).

The Philippines (Luzon, Catanduanes, Mindoro, Panay, Guimaras).

In the Philippines, the bark and leaves are used as a fish poison. A decoction of root or bark is used as an abortifacient. The leaves applied externally on the forehead are presumed to relieve headache. The wood is used for making wooden shoes.

• A tree up to 20 m tall.
• Leaves narrowly elliptical, (5-)6-11 cm × 1-4 cm, with up to 3 colleters in the leaf axils.
• Inflorescence a few-flowered, cymose cluster, sepals free with 4-15 colleters inside, corolla very variable, the lobes 1.1-4 times as long as the tube.
• Fruit unknown.

K. blancoi is found on volcanic soils in mountainous areas.

• [128] Brown, W.H., 1951—1957. Useful plants of the Philippines. Reprint of the 1941—1943 edition. 3 volumes. Technical Bulletin 10. Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Bureau of Printing, Manila, the Philippines. Vol. 1 (1951) 590 pp
• [283] Endress, M.E. & Bruyns, P.V., 2000. A revised classification of the Apocynaceae s.l. Botanical Review 66(1): 1—56.
• [810] Quisumbing, E., 1978. Medicinal plants of the Philippines. Katha Publishing Co., Quezon City, the Philippines. 1262 pp.

• Kibatalia (Medicinal plants)
• Kibatalia (Timbers)

• Rudjiman