Lepisanthes alata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Lepisanthes alata (Blume) Leenh.

Family: Sapindaceae

• Otophora alata Blume.

• Indonesia: cereme landa, ki angir (Sundanese), blimbing cina (Javanese)
• Malaysia: perupok.

Peninsular Malaysia, Java, Borneo, the Philippines. Occasionally also cultivated.

The fruits are edible.

• Tree, up to 10 m tall, monoecious.
• Leaves with 8-12 leaflets.
• Inflorescences up to 55 cm long.
• Fruit a globose berry, 2.5 cm in diameter, purple, with 1-4 seeds; endocarp often separating and forming an arillode.

In forests up to 500 m altitude.

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

• Heyne, K., 1927. De nuttige planten van Nederlandsch Indië [The useful plants of the Dutch East Indies]. 2nd ed. 3 Volumes. Departement van Landbouw, Nijverheid en Handel in Nederlandsch Indië. 1953 pp.

• Leenhouts, P.W., 1969. A revision of Lepisanthes (Sapindaceae). Blumea 17: 33-91.

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