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Combretum trifoliatum

Botanic Family

Combretaceae

Author

Ventenat

Common Names

• Kubaing (Indonesia)
• Sepang (Indonesia)
• Akar Nangkei (Indonesia)
• Akar Song Song Harus (Indonesia)
• Palawan (Indonesia)
• Tew (Papua New Guinea)
• Sauk (Myanmar)
• Ye-nabu-nwe (Myanmar)
• Tro (Cambodia)
• War tras (Cambodia)

Geographical Habitats

• Queensland - Australia
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Assam - India
• N. Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Perlis - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Seasonally inundated areas
• riversides
• lakesides
• shrubland
• forest
• forest edges
• mangroves

Flowering Times

• May-Nov (Malesia)

Fruiting Times

Large scrambling or climbing shrub to 5m, young branches covered in tawny hairs becoming glabrescent. Glabrous coriaceous leaves to 190mm x 55mm in whorls of 2-4. Terminal & axillary flower clusters or spikes of 20-50 flowers, to 200mm long with bracts, white or yellow-white sweetly-scented flowers, calyx hairy outside tube to 1.5mm x 2mm with 5 lobes to 1.5mm, 5 petals villous outside to 1.5mm, stamens to 5mm. Black-brown woody glabrous fruit 35mm x 12mm with up to 6 rigid wings to 5mm x 30mm.

Further References

• Mangrove
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• JAA
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• FONG