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Deeringia amaranthoides

Botanic Family

Amaranthaceae

Author

(Lamarck) Merrill

Common Names

• Jiang guo xian (Pinyin)
• Kyet-sa-gwe (Myanmar)
• Bayam besar
• Bayam pohon
• Pantjar luhur
• Tangtang angin (New Guinea)

Geographical Habitats

• New South Wales - Australia
• Bhutan
• Borneo
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Xizang
• Yunnan - China
• Sikkim-India
• Java - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Moluccas
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Papua New Guinea
• Princes Island
• Solomon Islands
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Rain forest
• swamp.

Flowering Times

• Feb-Apr (S. Hemi.)
• Oct-Mar (N. Hemi.)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Mar (N. Hemi.)

Sometimes climbing shrub or evergreen nearly glabrous vine to 6m with young stems pubescent becoming glabrescent. Mucronate glabrescent leaves to 160mm x 80mm. Axillary or terminal racemes to 400mm long with bracts to 1.5mm and bracteoles to 1mm. 4mm greenish-white bisexual malodorous flowers maturing reddish on 250mm spikes, tepals to 2.5mm long tinged red with white margins. 7mm wide red berries.

Medicinal uses. Young sprouts edible

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Jones & Gray 1977
• FOC
• net
• Bodkin
• FI
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• FOTA
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• FONG