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Rubus moluccanus var. glomeratus

Botanic Family

Rosaceae

Author

(Blume) Backer

Propagation

C.K.L.S.

Common Names

• Akar Balan Adap (Singapore)
• Emperingat (Sarawak)
• Langgamit (Sarawak)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Java
• S. Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Penang
• Perak
• Sarawak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge and clearings
• coastal
• secondary and disturbed forest
• riverside
• shrubland
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Dec (New Guinea)

Fruiting Times

• Dec (New Guinea)

Climbing, trailing or scrambling prickly shrub to 3m high with tomentose to glabrate branches with recurved prickles, 3-5 lobed leaves to 150mm x 130mm, hairy both surfaces, prickly on middle nerve beneath, rusty-brown beneath with serrate margins. Axillary & terminal prickly racemes or panicles to 100mm long pinnatipartite bracts, white flowers with triangular sepals to 9mm x 7mm with 2-6 teeth to 3mm, white petals to 10mm x 8mm, orange to red drupe to 8mm dia., with persistent sepals

Medicinal uses

Further References

• JDH
• FOSi
• The Plant List
• NYBG
• USNH
• Botanicus
• FNWNG
• JAA
• Flora Malesiana
• P. Chai
• GBS