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Medinilla crassifolia

Botanic Family

Melastomataceae

Author

(Blume) Blume

Common Names

• Akar Nubal (Negeri Sembilan)
• Assam Lokan Puteh (Negeri Sembilan)
• Assam Bongkor (Johore)
• Senudok Ayer (Selangor)
• Riang Bajit (Sarawak)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Brunei
• Java
• Kalimantan
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Johore
• Kedah
• Kelantan
• Malacca
• Negeri Sembilan
• Pahang
• Perak
• Sabah
• Sarawak
• Selangor
• Terengganu - Malaysia
• Philippines
• Singapore

Natural Habitats

• Swamp forest
• rain forest
• angroves
• woodland
• evergreen forest
• lowland forest to montane forest.

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Woody epiphytic or lithophytic liana, creeper or glabrous shrub to 3m with longitudinally fissured stems, warty glabrous branchlets, adventitious roots from nodes. Coriaceous fleshy glabrous leaves to 190mm x 80mm. Glabrous axillary few to many-flowered umbels or cymes to 10mm long, pink glabrous calyx 4mm x 3mm, 4-5 creamy white or white petals to 6mm x 3mm. Red fruit to 6mm across

Further References

• HKU
• Botanicus
• GBS
• J.C. Regalado
• P. Chai
• MPM
• FS