Meyna spinosa (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Meyna spinosa Roxb. ex Link

Family: Rubiaceae

• Vangueria spinosa Roxb.

• False thorn-randa (En)
• Penisular Malaysia: duri timun tahil.

India, Thailand, southern China, Peninsular Malaysia, Indonesia (Java).

The fruit is said to be edible.

• A straggling thorny bush or treelet, up to 5 m tall.
• Fruit a subglobose berry, ca. 2 cm diameter, yellow, in clusters along the branches.

• Burkill, I.H., 1966. A dictionary of the economic products of the Malay Peninsula. 2nd ed. 2 Volumes. Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2444 pp.

• Corner, E.J.H., 1965. Check-list of Ficus in Asia and Australasia with keys to identification. The Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 21: 1-186.

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