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Agelaea trinervis

Botanic Family

Connaraceae

Author

(Llanos) Merrill

Common Names

• Li dou teng (Pinyin)
• Akar Kachang Jantan (Singapore)
• Kalam Malam (Malay)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Hainan - China
• W. Java
• Maluku
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Primary and secondary rainforests
• forest edge
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Jan-Feb (Laos)
• Jan-Oct (Malesai)

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Dec (Malesia)

Large woody liana or climbing shrub to 7m with glabrous branches. 3-foliolate glabrous coriaceous leaves to 190mm x 100mm with recurved wavy margins. Tomentose or hispid fragrant white flowers to10mm x 7mm in axillary velvety panicles or fascicles, red sepals villous above, pubescent beneath to 2mm long, petals to 5mm long. Rusty-tomentose follicles to 25mm x 12.5mm, warty fruit

Medicinal uses

Further References

• FOC
• JDH
• FOSi
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana