Phytocrene oblonga
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Description
Climber to top of tall trees, with rather slender stem (up to 1.5 cm ø);
Branchlets densely set with fine retrorse prickly lenticels, tip short-pubescent.
Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, ± abruptly and shortly acuminate, acumen rather slender and slightly curved, subacute, base cu-neate to rounded, coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, rather densely stiffly short-hairy and a little rough to the touch beneath, early glabrescent, entire or undulate-subdentate, (10-)12-22 by (4-)5-9 cm, nerves 5-7 pairs, one of which basal, ascending and ± manifestly inarching before the edge, prominent as is the rather dense reticulation beneath;
Distribution
Annam present, Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Thailand (Thailand present), Cochinchina present, Johore present, Lower Burma present, Malacca present, Pattani present, Penang present
Lower Burma, Thailand (Pattani), Indo-China (Annam, Cochinchina); in Malesia: Malay Peninsula (Penang to Malacca and Johore).
Uses
The leaves are used by Malay natives for fever headache. The caustic seed is reported to be edible.
Citation
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 432
SLEUM. 1969 – In: Blumea: 237
GAGNEP. 1911: p. 839. – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: f. 102, 4-8
GAGNEP. 1948: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 757
King 1895 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 122
WALP. 1842 – In: Rep.: 98
CRAIB 1926 – In: Fl. Siam. En.: 275
Wall. 1970 – In: Fl. Thail.: 90
BAILL. 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 13
Wall. 1832: Cat.: n. 4948
MAST. 1875 – In: Hook.f., Fl. Br. Ind. 1: 592