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Fibraurea tinctoria

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

Loureiro

Common Names

• Tian xian teng (Pinyin)
• Akar Kuning (Singapore)
• Akar Kinching Kerbau (Singapore)
• Akar Badi (Sarawak)
• Akar Tipang (Sarawak). Akar Penawa (Sarawak)
• Dara Lang Perempuan (Sarawak)
• Balet or Binak (Kenyah)
• Peron (Indonesia)
• Bintang Habu or Merkunyit (Malay)
• Huang Teng (Chinese)
• Hoang Dang (Vietnamese)
• Kam-phaeng (Thailand)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Brunei
• Cambodia
• China
• India
• Java
• NE. Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Johore
• Sabah
• Sarawak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• bamboo forest
• scrubland
• swamp forest
• riverside
• lowland forest
• forest margins
• coastal forest
• primary heath forest.

Flowering Times

• All year (Malesia)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Malesia)

Large woody climber to 40m or creeper with tendrilled young shoot tips. Coriaceous glabrous leaves to 280mm x 140mm. Lateral pendulous racemes or panicles to 380mm of sweet-scented white cauliflorous flowers, male flowers with white or yellow sepals to 4mm long, female sepals and petals as in male. Orange or yellow berry fruit to 40m long with hard rigid shell.

Medicinal, produces yellow dye

Further References

• HKU
• FOSi
• The Plant List 2
• FS
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana
• P. Chai
• GBS
• Wiart 2