Archidendron jiringa
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Description
Shrub or tree, to 21 m high, 60(-90) cm in diameter.
Branchlets terete with decurrent ridges from the leaf-scars, light brown, glabrous.
Leaves:
Inflorescences either ramiflorous below the leaves or axillary at the distal leaves, with scattered hairs in the distal parts, glabrescent, consisting of glomerules aggregated into panicles to 30 cm long;
Flowers cream or yellowish white, pentamerous, bisexual.
Stamens c. 8-10 mm, tube equalling the corolla-tube.
Ovary solitary, glabrous.
Seeds dark-brown, orbicular, biconvex. 2.8-3.5 cm in diameter, 1-1.5 cm thick.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Bangladesh (Bangladesh present); Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Bangka present, Burma present
Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand; in Malesia: Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Bangka, Java, Borneo.
Uses
Seeds contain the toxic djenkol acid, which can be removed after two or three boilings. Used for flavouring food. Pods give a purple dye for silk; bark and leaves used for dyeing black; the leaves are used medicinally (cf. Burkill, Ochse & Bakhuizen, and Heyne, 11.cc., and Kostermans 1954: 30).
Citation
Kurz 1876 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 300
Benth. 1875 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc.: 575
Kosterm. 1966 – In: Adansonia: 362
Heyne 1927: Nutt. Pl. Ned. Ind., ed. 2: 701
auct. non (Roxb.) Benth.: Benth. 1875 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc.: 561
Cockb. 1976 – In: Trees Sabah: 195, 196
Miq. 1855 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 32
Whitm. 1972 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 286
Koord. 1926: 868, 869. – In: Atlas: f. 1156, 1157
Nielsen 1986: p. 218. – In: Fl. Thailand: f. 54
Ochse & Bakh. 1931: Ind. Groenten, English ed: 425: f. 264
Backer & Bakh. f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 552
Corner 1940 – In: Wayside Trees: 420
Hassk. 1844: Tweede Cat.: 291
Burkill 1935 – In: Diet.: 1761
Ochse & Bakh. 1925: Ind. Groenten: 117