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Aristolochia acuminata

Botanic Family

Aristolochiaceae

Author

Lamarck

Common Names

• Er ye ma dou ling (Pinyin)
• Roxburgh's Aristolochia
• Kalayar or Puyan or Kunit (Indonesia)
• Akar Ketola Hutan (Malay)
• Goan-goan or Nagerus or Timbangan (Filipino)
• Krachao Mot or Krachao Pheemot (Thai)
• Daaly Khoos (Vietnamese)

Geographical Habitats

• Queensland
• Western Australia - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Japan
• Sarawak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Bismarck Archipelago
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Solomon Islands
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• disturbed areas
• montane forest
• rain forest
• secondary forest
• thickets
• lowland forest. Medicinal uses

Flowering Times

• May-Aug (China)
• All Year (Malesia)

Fruiting Times

• Aug Oct-Dec (China)
• All year (Malesia)

Herbaceous perennial or woody twiner to 20m, or shrub with glabrous furrowed branches. Glabrous sagittate coriaceous leaves to 270mm x 160mm with recurved margins. Pale yellowish or greenish with dark purple throat flowers to 60mm in axillary racemes of 2-3 flowers, flowers with opposing puberulous bracts to 10mm long, puberulent flowers with tube to 15mm wider at top with oblong lip to 40mm x 8mm. Green 6-ridged glabrous basket-shaped fruit capsule 50mm x 35mm.

Possibly toxic

Medicinal

Further References

• Mobot
• FOC
• Kew
• Fl. Indochine
• JAA
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• Wiart 2