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Pyramidanthe prismatica

Botanic Family

Annonaceae

Author

(Hooker f. & Thomson) Merrill

Common Names

• Akar Rarak (Sarawak)
• Sebulan (Malaysia)
• Handan Malam (Malaysia)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Brunei
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Kedah
• Malacca
• Penang
• Perak
• Sabah
• Sarawak
• Seberang Perai - Malaysia
• Singapore
• Thailand

Natural Habitats

• Jungle
• forest
• swamp forest
• lowland & hill forest

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Large woody liana to 30m with pubescent striate lenticellate young twigs. Glabrous leaves or sparsely rusty-pubescent beneath to 260mm x 85mm. Axillary or terminal solitary or paired flowers with minute bracts, sepals to 7mm across red-brown pubescent outside glabrous within, coriaceous outer petals to 80mm long rusty tomentose outside puberulous pale yellow inside, glabrous yellow inner petals to 10mm long. Tuberculate dark green pubescent fruit to 50mm x 25mm with peristent calyx

Further References

• HKU
• FOSi
• FS
• The Plant List 2
• GBS
• P. Chai
• Wiart 2