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Coscinium fenestratum

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

(Goetghebeur) Colebrooke

Common Names

• Akar Kunyit (Singapore)
• Khua Hem (Laos)
• Kunyit Babi (Singapore)
• Veni-vell-gettah (Singalese)
• Bang-well-gettah (Singalese)
• Knotted Plant
• Vang dang
• Yellow Vine
• Akar Badi (Sarawak)
• Babas (Sarawak)
• Akar Penawar (Sarawak)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Brunei
• Cambodia
• S. India
• W. Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Sarawak - Malaysia
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Hill forest
• primary forest
• woodland
• lowland forest

Flowering Times

• Nov-Dec (Sri Lanka)

Fruiting Times

Large glabrescent woody liana with twining glabrescent stems, simple alternate leaves to 330mm x 230mm, glabrous above, white-tomentose beneath. Supra-axillary or cauliflorous racemes, fascicles or umbels to 110mm, 200mm diameter with bracts to 5mm long, male flowers with 3-6 yellow inner sepals to 2mm long, outer sepals to 1.5mm long, female flowers 1mm long, 6 sepals, brown to orange or yellow tomentose woody drupe to 30mm diameter

Medicinal uses, produces yellow dye, arrow poisons

Further References

• HKU
• Flora Malesiana
• FOSi
• J.S. Gamble
• The Plant List 2
• Sahyadri
• FS
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• P. Chai
• GBS