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Dischidia major
Dischidia major
- Botanic Family
- Apocynaceae
- Author
- (Vahl) Merrill
- Propagation
- C.L.
Common Names
- Battle Skulls
- Pitcher Plant
- Malayan Urn Vine
- Chuk Rohini (Thailand)
- Akar Kul (Malaysia)
- Akar Bano (Malaysia)
Geographical Habitats
- Queensland - Australia
- Bangladesh
- Borneo
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- Andaman Islands
- Assam
- Nicobar Islands - India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Sulawesi
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Laos
- Johore
- Kedah
- Malacca
- Pahang
- Perak
- Perlis
- Sarawak - Malaysia
- Myanmar
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Thailand
- Timor Leste
- Vietnam
Natural Habitats
- On rough-barked trees often in swamps
- coastal
- riverside
- coastal woodland
- montane thickets
- lowland & hill forest
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Small evergreen glabrous stem-rooting epiphytic vine with wiry twining or creeping glabrous or slightly pubescent stems with insect pouches on branches. Leaves in 2 forms, smaller leaves to 25mm across, pouchlike pitcher leaves to 120mm long yellow-green outside & purple inside with holes at base for ants & aerial roots. Coriaceous mucronate yellow leaves farinaceous on both surfaces & purple beneath 25mm long. Terminal inflorescence, pitchers to 60mm long with mouth downwards yellow both sides 25mm x 25mm, umbels of 6mm cream or golden-yellow flowers with purple throat downy inside in axillary umbels or racemes, calyx lobes hairy outside, yellow corolla tube hairy outside, corolla lobes glabrous inside villous outside, & 130mm pale green pitchers. Curved smooth or downy solitary follicles to 100mm long x 8mm
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Jones & Gray 1977
- Beckett 1990
- Huxley 1992
- Bodkin
- Thai F.
- JDH
- de Candolle
- WFO
- G. Don
- FS
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOMP
- GBS
- Kew
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Elmer