Euthemis leucocarpa
Content
Description
Shrub up to 6 m.
Branchlets stout, green.
Leaves oblong to linear oblong, 8-40 by 2-10 cm, acute at apex, tapering at base, margin distinctly and irregularly denticulate, nerves 1-2 mm apart;
Stipules ovate, 4-6 by c. 2 mm, acute to acuminate, ciliate.
Flowers ☿, erect, often in pairs.
Sepals obliquely ovate to elliptic, unequal, 4-7 by 2-3½ mm, ciliate.
Petals obliquely obovate to spatulate, 4-10 by 2½-5 mm.
Panicles erect, 8-20 cm;
Ovary ovoid to bottle-shaped, 2-4 by c. 1 mm, style 1½-3 mm.
Fruit globular, up to 1 cm ø, fleshy, via red turning white.
Seeds like sectors of a sphere, c. 4 by 2 mm.
Distribution
Anambas Is present, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Banka present, Billiton present, Lingga Is present, Riouw present, SW. Cambodia present
SW. Cambodia; in Malesia: Sumatra, Riouw&Lingga Is., Banka, Billiton, Malay Peninsula, Anambas Is., Borneo.
Uses
Medical applications of the roots is reported from Malaya. In Brunei the fruits are used against eye-diseases.
Citation
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 368
King 1893 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 234
HALL.f. 1917 – In: Beih. Bot. Centralbl.: 32
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 368
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 675
Wall. 1824 – In: Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 303
Merr. 1952 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 224
VIDAL 1961 – In: Adansonia: 60
Merr. 1921 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc.: 388
KANIS 1968 – In: Blumea: 62
HALL.f. 1917 – In: Beih. Bot. Centralbl.: 30
Ridl. 1893 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc.: 285
Diels 1926 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 311
BARTELL. 1901 – In: Malpighia: 168
PLANCH. 1845 – In: Hook., Ic. Pl. II: t. 711
BENN. 1875 – In: Hook.f., Fl. Br. Ind. 1: 526
BARTELL. 1901 – In: Malpighia: 167
JACK 1860: Sumatra: 208, 533
BURK. 1935 – In: Dict.: 987
JACK 1970 – In: Fl. Thail.: 29
AIRY SHAW 1940: Kew Bull.: 249
SCHEFF. 1873 – In: Nat. Tijd. N. I.: 411
JACK 1830 – In: Hook., Bot. Misc. 2: 69