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Erycibe tomentosa

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Blume

Common Names

• Akar Kijang (Singapore)
• Akar Sakijang (Malaysia)
• Akar Purut Kijang (Malaysia)
• Akar Purut Kerbau (Malaysia)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• W. Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Johore
• Malacca
• Negeri Sembilan - Malaysia
• Philippines
• Singapore

Natural Habitats

• Montane areas
• scrubland
• forest
• lowland forest margins
• coastal forest
• hedgerows
• woodland edge

Flowering Times

• Jul-Aug (Indonesia)

Fruiting Times

Tall twining liana or erect woody shrub or creeper, with glabrescent stems older ones with longitudinal cork-ridges. Coriaceous leaves glabrous above, tomentose beneath becoming glabrescent to 180mm x 85mm. Brown-tomentose axillary & terminal cymes or racemes to 70mm long of scented white flowers, with brown pubescent sepals to 4.8mm x 5mm, white hairy corolla to 10mm across with a tube to 3mm. Glabrous orange to red drupe or berry aging black 12mm x 7mm

Stems used for binding

Further References

• G. Don
• Flora Malesiana
• Kew
• GBS
• JDH
• FS
• FOMP