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Tinomiscium petiolare

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

J.D. Hooker & Thomson

Common Names

• Da ye teng (Pinyin)
• Akar Lankap (Singapore)
• Bayating (Pamp.)
• Kalumpangi (Bag.)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Brunei
• S. Guangxi
• S. & SE. Yunnan - China
• Assam
• Nicobar Islands - India
• W. Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• hill forest
• streamside in evergreen forests
• forest edges
• woodland

Flowering Times

• May-Jun (Thailand)
• May-Dec (Vietnam)
• All year (Malesia)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Oct (Thailand)
• All year (Malesia)

Large perennial evergreen robust woody liana to 30m, with striate glabrous stems, stems red-tomentose when young, leaves to 290mm x 200mm, glabrous above, glabrous or puberulous beneath. Racemes to 350mm of cauliflorous fragrant flowers, 3.5mm male flowers with 6 white to yellow sepals to 5mm long, 6 glabrous petals to 3.5mm long, female flowers with sepals and petals as in male, 40mm x 20mm glabrous fruits ripening yellow or orange

Medicinal uses, fruits used as fish poison

Further References

• FOC
• HKU
• FOSi
• The Plant List 2
• FS
• USNH
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana