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Arcangelisia flava

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Merrill

Common Names

• Suma (Philippines)
• Kha Min Khua (Laos & Thai)
• Viay dang
• Akar Badi (Sarawak)
• Akar Kuning (Sarawak). Akar Tipang (Sarawak)
• Pa (Sarawak)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Hainan - China
• C. Java
• N. Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Perak
• Sarawak - Malaysia
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• S. Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• riversides
• lowland forest
• secondary forest
• coastal
• rain forest

Flowering Times

• Sep

Fruiting Times

Robust glabrous liana to 10m with coriaceous glabrescent leaves to 250mm 190mm. Axillary or cauliflorous racemes or panicles to 500mm, sweet-scented white flowers, apetalous male flowers to 2.5mm long with 1mm long bracteole, 3-4 minute outer sepals less than 1mm long, inner sepals to 2.5mm long, female flowers with sepals to 4mm long. Infructescnce to 450mm long with glabrous dull yellow drupes 30mm x 33mm x 25mm covered with dense mat of fibres.

Medicinal uses, leaves used for flavouring in cooking, fish poison

Further References

• Flora Malesiana
• F Indochine
• The Plant List 2
• P. Chai
• GBS
• Botanicus