Maclura cochinchinensis

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Description

Shrub, often much-branched with long scrambling sprays, or climber, with up to 4 cm long straight or curved thorns. Leaves spirally arranged to distichous; stipules 0.2-0.3 cm long, puberulous, caducous or subpersistent. flowers basally connate; stamens c. 1 mm long, anthers c. 0.5 mm long; ovary c. 1 mm long, style 0.5 mm long, stigmas 2-3 mm long, twisted;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: East Himalaya (Bhutan present, Sikkim present); India present; Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka present), Australasia, Japan present, New Caledonia present

Sri Lanka, India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Japan, Australia, New Caledonia; in Malesia: throughout.

Uses

The infructescences are edible and the wood is used for dyeing silk yellow or green.

Citation

Merr. 1917: Interpr. Herb. Amboin.: 189

Bureau 1869 – In: Ann. Sci. Nat.: 378

Steenis 1972: Mt Fl. Java: pl. 30-7

Miq. 1859: p. 290. – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: ‘Cudranus pubescens’

Hook.f. 1888 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 538

Warb. 1891 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 294

Backer 1948 – In: Blumea: 302

Nakai 1927 – In: Bot. Mag. (Tokyo): 515

Diels 1935 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 174

T.S. Liu 1962 – In: Ill. Lign. Pl. Taiwan: 709

Koord. 1912 – In: Exkurs.-Fl. Java: 91

Corner 1962 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 19: 239

Miq. 1859: p. 291. – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: ‘Cudranus acuminatus’.

Trécul 1918: Sp. Blancoan: 123: ‘javensis’

Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 17

Merr. 1935: Comm. Fl. Cochinch.: 134

Koord. 1912 – In: Exkurs.-Fl. Java: 90

Gagnep. 1928 – In: Fl. Indo-Chine: 730

F.B. Forbes & Hemsl. 1899 – In: J. Linn. Soc.: 470

Miq. 1859: p. 290. – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: ‘Cudranus obovatus’

Miq. 1859: p. 291. – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: ‘Cudranus sumatranus’.

Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 280

Gagnep. 1928 – In: Fl. Indo-Chine: 727

Blume 1856 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi: 84

H.L. Li 1963: Woody Fl. Taiwan: 113: f. 36

Wight 1853 – In: Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient.: t. 1960

Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 290

Benth. 1873 – In: Fl. Australia: 179

Ohwi 1965: Fl. Japan,, new ed: 384

Trimen 1898 – In: Fl. Ceylon: 98

Gagnep. 1928: p. 729. – In: Fl. Indo-Chine: t. 89: 9-14, 90: 1-3

Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 356

Koord. 1924: Exkurs.-Fl. Java Atlas: t. 750

Kurz 1877 – In: Forest Fl. Burma: 435

1879: 3: 108: t. 418

Kudô & Masam. 1938: Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Taiwan: 292

Kurz 1877: p. 434. – In: Fl. Burma: ‘Cudrania’

Gagnep. 1928 – In: Fl. Indo-Chine: 726

K. Schum. & Lauterb. 1901: Fl. Schutzgeb. Südsee: 266