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

Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind. p 280

Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl. p 39

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

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

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

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

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

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

Backer 1948 – In: Blumea. p 302

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

Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind. p 290

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1879: 3: 108. t. 418

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

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

Kurz 1877 – In: Forest Fl. Burma. p 435

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

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

Benth. 1873 – In: Fl. Australia. p 179

Trimen 1898 – In: Fl. Ceylon. p 98

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

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

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

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

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

Bureau 1869 – In: Ann. Sci. Nat. p 378

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

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

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

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