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Sphenodesme triflora

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

Wight

Common Names

• Akar Bisar (Malaysia)
• Akar Risa (Malaysia)
• Akar Meruan (Malaysia)
• Akar Memali (Malaysia)
• Alor Gajah (Malacca)
• Verupha
• Akar Katup-katup
• Akar Pinang Gusi
• Akar Sambu
• Akar Sĕmpuleh

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Brunei
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Johore
• Malacca
• Negeri Sembilan
• Pahang
• Penang
• Perak
• Sabah
• Sarawak
• Selangor
• Terengganu - Malaysia
• Singapore
• Thailand

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• montane areas
• lowland & hill forest
• primary forest
• disturbed forest.

Flowering Times

• Jun (Sarawak)

Fruiting Times

Woody twining liana to 9m or grey-puberulous scandent shrub with glabrescent lenticellate branchlets. Glabrous leaves to 130mm x 50mm, glabrous both surfaces or tomentellous beneath. Axillary & terminal pubescent panicles or cymes to 600mm long with 6 puberulous brownish-red bracts to 25mm x 7mm, pink flowers with hairy throat, pubescent 5-6 lobed calyx to 5mm x 2.5mm, lobes to 0.5, calyx enlarging in fruit to 18mm x 7.5mm with lobes to 2mm long, 5-lobed dark purple corolla, tube to 6mm long with 5 puberulous lobes to 2mm long. Glabrous drupe to 6mm long with persistent calyx & villous ring in throat, capsule included in enlarged ribbed calyx.

Further References

• Mobot
• Wiart
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• FOMP
• GBS
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew