Daphniphyllum laurinum
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Description
Shrubs or small trees, up to 21 m high, 30 cm in diam., outer bark smooth or lenti- cellate, red or red-grey, inner bark red or yellow, fibrous, soft, cambium white.
Leaves alternate or fasciculate; blades large, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, apex acuminate or falcate, base cuneate or obtuse, 11-37 by 3.5-13 cm, margins remotely undulate, firmly chartaceous, brown on both surfaces, sometimes papillate and glaucous beneath, lateral veins 10-12 pairs, obscure, midrib triangular, impressed above; petioles terete or triangular, 3-21 cm long.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa cultivated); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Bangka present
Malesia: widely distributed in Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo, also in Sumatra and Bangka, cultivated in Java, derived from specimens in the Botanic Garden, Bogor.
Uses
A decoction of the roots is used in Bangka (Indonesia) as a medicine against diarrhoea and thrush.