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Combretum tetralophum

Botanic Family

Combretaceae

Author

C.B. Clarke

Common Names

• Akar Aru (Indonesia)
• Songsong Harus (Indonesia)
• Susong Harus (Indonesia)
• Tingting (Indonesia)
• Sungsung Arus (Indonesia)
• Susung Arus (Indonesia)
• Chi tu' giâi lang (Thailand)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Brunei
• Cambodia
• Caroline Islands
• Nicobar Islands - India
• Java
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Johore - Malaysia
• Bismarck Archipelago
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Timor Leste
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Mangroves
• riverine forest
• shrubland
• riverside
• swamp

Flowering Times

• Dec

Fruiting Times

Tall woody liana or scandent shrub with glabrescent stems. Leaves glabrous except for hairs on midrib beneath, to 200mm x 110mm. Terminal & axillary flower clusters or sub-terminal brown-hairy racemes with 20-40 flowers, to 30mm long with bracts, yellow, greenish-yellow or greenish-white sweet-scented flowers to 9mm long, glabrous calyx to 4mm long with 4 triangular lobes to 2mm long, 4 glabrous white petals to 3mm x 1mm. Densely scaly black fruit to 40mm x 18mm with 4 narrow longitudinal ridges or wings.

Further References

• Mangrove
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• FONG
• IFV