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Opilia amentacea

Botanic Family

Opiliaceae

Author

Roxburgh

Propagation

S.

Common Names

• Shan you zi (Pinyin)
• Petit Mangolier
• Prunellier Liane
• Aratig (Tagbanua)
• Banho or Gbanro (Bariba)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Northern Territory
• Queensland
• Western Australia - Australia
• Benin
• Borneo
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• S. Yunnan - China
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi - Indonesia
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Laos
• Madgascar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Nigeria
• Bismarck Archipelago
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Solomon Islands
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Togo
• Uganda
• Vietnam
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Open forest
• stream margins
• shrubland
• coastal woodland
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Aug-Oct (Aust)
• Apr-Jun (China)
• Feb (Philippines)
• Jul (Vietnam)
• Feb (Laos)
• All year (Malesia)

Fruiting Times

• Apr-Jun (China)
• Feb (Philippines)
• All Year (Malesia)

Root parasitic mostly glabrous shrubby perennial liana to 30m or small tree with puberulent stems, coriaceous glabrous leaves 160mm x 50mm. Slender axillary racemes or spikes to 40mm long with bracts of 2mm long, strongly fragrant yellow-green flowers, glabrous calyx, 5 slightly villous petals, puberulent pedicels. Glaucous white, orange-yellow or reddish drupe to 30mm x 17.5mm, finely red-puberulent

Fruit edible, medicinal, aphrodisiac, leaf vegetable

Further References

• Jones & Gray 1977
• Mobot
• FOC
• FCP
• Jstor
• Botanicus
• J.S. Gamble
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• F Indochine
• FOTA
• Flora Malesiana
• Kew
• Traditional Vegetables in Benin