Vitex quinata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Vitex quinata (Lour.) F.N. Williams

Protologue: Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2, 5: 431 (1905).

• Vitex heterophylla Roxb. (1832),
• Vitex sumatrana Miq. (1861),
• Vitex celebica Koord. (1898).

• Orange-barked vitex (En)
• Indonesia: ketileng, laban (general), ki bangbara (Sundanese), gofasa (Malay, northern Sulawesi)
• Malaysia: leban bunga, leban tandok, merboh (Peninsular)
• Philippines: kalipapa (general)
• Burma (Myanmar): kyetyo-po
• Thailand: sakhang, makhang, ipae, maak lek maak noi (north-eastern).
• Vietnam: cây mạn kinh

India, the Andaman Islands, Burma (Myanmar), Indo-China, southern China, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, the Philippines, Sulawesi, Timor and the Moluccas.

The timber is used locally for house construction and boats, especially in Sulawesi, where the logs may have large dimensions. The bark is used as a tonic and as a stomachic; an infusion of it is drunk to stimulate the appetite.

• A medium-sized to large tree up to 45 m tall, bole up to 100(-150) cm in diameter, often fluted, bark surface shallowly fissured, pale grey, inner bark bright orange.
• Leaflets (3-)5, lanceolate to ovate, glabrous or pubescent on the veins only, petioluled, median leaflet 5-13 cm × 2.5-6 cm, with 9-12 pairs of lateral veins.
• Cymes arranged in large panicles which are terminal or axillary in the upper leaf axils.
• Calyx 3-4 mm long, almost truncate to minutely 5-toothed, corolla pale yellowish to purplish, glabrous to sparsely pubescent inside.
• Fruit subglobose to pear-shaped, 6-12 mm long, blackish when mature.

V. quinata is found in forest up to 1300 m altitude. The density of the wood is reported as only 340-660 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content in Indonesia.

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• Vitex (Medicinal plants)
• Vitex (Timbers)

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