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Premna serratifolia
Premna serratifolia
- Botanic Family
- Lamiaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
Common Names
- San xu xiu huang jing (Pinyin)
- Tavolavo (Fiji)
- Kywe-thwe (Myanmar)
- Taung-tangyi (Myanmar)
- A-aru (Papua New Guinea)
- Garlu
- Qua-eu
- Arru-arru (Solomons)
- Ahgao
- Ngurunguru
- Waro
- Waro Ndamu
- Akar Rachun Tikus (Malaysia)
- Akar Buas Tungul (Malaysia)
- Akar Perindu (Malaysia)
- Akar Jutong (Malaysia)
- Akar Mulor Padang (Malaysia)
- Tunung Rimau Putih (Malaysia)
- Bois de Bouc
- Field Jasmine
- Lingue Blanc
- Rat-poison Climber
- Tĕnung Rimau Puteh
- Amboeng-Amboeng Laoet
- Baroewas
- Baroewĕh
- Baroh
- Boewas-boewas
Geographical Habitats
- Keeling Islands
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- Western Australia - Australia
- Bangladesh
- Borneo
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- Caroline Islands
- Guangdong
- Guangxi
- Hainan
- Hongkong
- Taiwan - China
- Christmas Island
- Comoros
- Cook Islands
- Fiji
- Guam
- Andaman Islands
- Assam
- Nicobar Islands - India
- Java
- Kalimantan
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Maluku
- Sulawesi
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Ryukyu islands - Japan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Madagascar
- Johore
- Kedah
- Malacca
- Negeri-Sembilan
- Penang
- Perak
- Pulau - Malaysia
- Mariana Islands
- Marquesas Islands
- Marshall islands
- Mascarene Islands
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Nauru
- New Caledonia
- Niue
- Bismarck Archipelago
- Bougainville - Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Pitcairn
- Reunion Island
- Samoa
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- Society Islands
- Solomon Islands
- Sri Lanka
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
Natural Habitats
- Montane & lowland forest
- streamsides
- woodland
- riverside
- coastal
- mangroves
- secondary rain forest
- swamp
- thickets
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Erect armed shrub or tree or occasionally climbing or creeping woody shrub to 3.3m with glabrous or pubescent branchlets becoming glabrous. Glabrous or pilose coriaceous denticulate leaves to 210mm x 160mm, hairy beneath, margins usually entire, rarely serrate. Dense terminal many-flowered minutely hairy or glabrous corymbs or panicles to 240mm x 125mm with bracts, of yellowish-green or white flowers with hairy throat & offensive smell, toothed green to yellow-white pubescent calyx to 2mm x 1.5mm with 0-5 lobes, corolla white villous inside puberulous outside, corolla tube to 5mm x 2mm with 4 greenish-white lobes to 3.5mm x 2mm, limb 3mm long. Fruit a glabrous, sometimes warty black or purple drupe to 8mm x 5mm, fruiting calyx to 4mm long.
Natives use this for fire sticks
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- FOC
- JPS
- FI
- JDH
- The Plant List 2
- USNH
- JFM
- FOTA
- FOMP
- JAA
- Gleason & Moldenke
- GBS
- Kew
- FS
- Academia