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Gmelina asiatica

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Propagation

C.S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Common Names

• Ya zhou shi zi (Pinyin)
• Phoung Mou (Laos)
• Badhára
• Bhedaira
• Biddari
• Bulangan
• Challa-gumudu
• Coumelon
• Gamudu
• Gatta-demmata
• Gumudu
• Heilpeeren
• Kal-shivani
• Kavva-gumudu
• Láhán Shivan
• Nilak-kumazh
• Demata (Singhalese)
• Kumil (Tamil)
• Bulang or Bulongan (Malay)
• Köncaang (Cambodia)
• Phoung Nou (Laos)
• Banganga (Cebuano)
• Wareng (Javanese)
• Hau Bako (Dawan)
• Lombaul (Alor)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Guangdong
• S. Guangxi - China
• Andaman Islands
• Mainland
• Nicobar Islands - India
• Java - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malacca
• Negri-Sembilan
• Perak
• Tringganu - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• wasteland
• coastal
• secondary forest.

Flowering Times

• Oct-Nov (India) All year (Sri Lanka)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Sri Lanka)

Climbing spiny or unarmed hairy shrub, arching shrub or tree to 10m with lenticellate branches, spines to 25mm long. Simple to 5-lobed leaves to 130mm x 60mm pubescent beneath when young, leaflets to 40mm x 25mm. Tomentose or pubescent terminal racemes or panicles to 100mm long with bracts to 10mm x 6mm, 10 to many flowers, 50mm yellow flowers, pubescent 4-5 toothed calyx to 6mm x 4mm with lobes to 1mm, yellow corolla puberulous outside to 50mm long with 4 lobes to 35mm x 15mm. Fruit a glabrous pear-shaped yellow drupe to 30mm x 30mm, fruiting calyx to 8mm diameter.

Medicinal uses

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• FOC
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• FOMP
• GBS
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew
• Kew bulletin vol. 67 (3)