Streblus asper

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Streblus asper

Description

Shrub or tree up to 10(-15) m tall, much-branched, branches often drooping; lower ones (often?) prostrate, monoecious or dioecious. Leaves distichous; stipules 0.3-0.5 cm long, puberulous, caducous (or subpersistent). flowers 4-15; stamens 2-2.5 mm long, anthers c. 1 mm long; ovary c. 1 mm long, style c. 1 mm long, elongating up to 3 mm, stigmas 2-4 mm long, elongating up to 12 mm;

Distribution

Ambon present, Andaman Islands present, Asia-Temperate: Hainan (Hainan present), Asia-Tropical: Bangladesh (Bangladesh present); East Himalaya (Bhutan present); India present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present (Bali present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Atjeh present, Flores present, Kangean Island present, Kedah present, Kelantan present, Lombok present, Madura present, Medan present, Myanmar present, Nicobar Islands present, Penang present, Perlis present, South China present, Sumbawa present
Sri Lanka, India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Thailand, South China (incl. Hainan), Indochina; in Malesia: Sumatra (Atjeh, Medan), Malay Peninsula (Penang, Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan), Java (also Madura and Kangean Island), Philippines, Celebes, Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Sumba), Moluccas (Ambon).

Uses

The fruits are edible, sweet and the leaves can be used as cattle fodder.

Citation

Lour. 1988: Wayside Trees Malaya, ed. 3: 555: t. 168
Roxb. 1832: Fl. Ind., ed. Carey 3: 761
Hook.f. 1888 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 489
Hassk. 1848: Pl. Jav. Rar.: 197
Gagnep. 1928: p. 712. – In: Fl. Indo-Chine: f. 86: 10-16, 87: 1-2
Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java: 7
Lour. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 38
Blume 1856: p. 79. – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi: f. 33
1879: 3: 1103: t. 171
Lour. 1977: p. 156. – In: Fl. Ceylon: t. 28
Zoll. 1854: Syst. Verz.: 89
Diels 1935 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 172
Koord. 1924: Exkurs.-Fl. Java, Atlas: f. 747
Miq. 1851: Pl. Jungh.: 42
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 16
Corner 1962 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 19: 228
Worth. 1959: Ceylon Trees: pl. 424
Koord. 1912 – In: Exkurs.-Fl. Java: 88
Corner 1940: p. 692. – In: Wayside Trees Malaya: t. 255
Wight 1853 – In: Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient.: t. 1961
Wight 1834: p. 62. – In: J. Bot.: t. 121
Merr. 1935: Comm. Fl. Cochinch.: 134
Corner 1975: p. 3. – In: Phytomorphology: t. 1B, 3D
Merr. 1937 – In: Lingnan Sci. J.: 187
Alston 1938: Kandy Fl: 35: F. 184
Merr. 1918: Sp. Blancoan.: 123