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Urceola elastica

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Roxburgh

Common Names

• Rubber Tree
• Akar Gegrip Merah (Malaysia)
• Gegrip Tembaga (Malaysia)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Kelantan
• Malacca
• Negeri Sembilan
• Penang
• Perak
• Sarawak
• Selangor - Malaysia
• Singapore

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• lowland forest

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

• Aug

Gigantic liane with coriaceous glabrous leaves pubescent beneath to 175mm x 85mm, greenish flowers in terminal & axillary pubescent panicles or cymes 150mm x 75mm, corolla to 1.5mm, hairy green fruit to 200mm x 10mm diameter brown velevety when young

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• FOC
• Mobot
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• FOMP
• GBS
• Kew