Salacia oblongifolia (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Salacia oblongifolia Blume

Family: Celastraceae

Synonyms

• Salacia melitocarpa Blume.

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: areuy langari, ki-hapiet, manggong.

Distribution

Thailand and western parts of Malesia.

Uses

The pulp of the fruit is eaten.

Observations

• Liana up to 30 m long.
• Inflorescences very short with few flowers.
• Flowers contain many sulphur-like particles.
• Fruit a drupe, subovoid to pear-shaped, pinkish to red, 4-8(-12) cm × 3.5-4.5(-7) cm.

Occurs in lowland forest up to 1000 m altitude, sometimes found on sandstone, in swamp and peat forests. Often classified in Hippocrateaceae.

Selected sources

• 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.

• van Steenis, C.G.G.J. et al. (Editors), 1950-. Flora Malesiana. Series 1. Vol. 1, 4-10. Centre for Research and Development in Biology, Bogor, Indonesia, and Rijksherbarium, Leiden, the Netherlands. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London.

Authors

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