Dendrocnide amplissima (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Dendrocnide amplissima (Blume) Chew

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Sing. 21: 202 (1965).

Synonyms

• Laportea amplissima (Blume) Miq. (1859).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: mesi tapalole, soro bilalago, sosoro boboedo (Moluccas).

Distribution

Sulawesi and the Moluccas.

Uses

In the Moluccas, sap from the pounded bark is used as a remedy for sprue.

Observations

• A dioecious tree up to 8 m tall, twigs glabrescent, without irritant hairs.
• Leaves broad elliptical to slightly obovate, (20-)30-35(-45) cm × (12-)15-20(-25) cm, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margin sinuate, glabrous except for a few short irritant hairs at the lower surface, petiole (4-)6-8(-10) cm long, irritant hairs absent, stipules 4-7 cm long, light pubescent, with few irritant hairs.
• Raceme branched, usually solitary, up to 25 cm × 35 cm, bracteolate.
• Male flowers pedicellate, separated from each other, about 1.3 mm long, glabrous except for a few rather long irritant hairs, filaments slightly reflexed, female flowers subsessile to sessile, distichous on peduncular extremities, glabrous except for a few rather long irritant hairs, tepals 4, stigma brush-like, 0.5 mm long.
• Achene broadly ellipsoid, to 3 mm × 2.5 mm, flat, smooth, perianth persistent, stigma persistent.

Selected sources

• [74] Backer, C.A. & Bakhuizen van den Brink Jr, R.C., 1964—1968. Flora of Java. 3 volumes. Noordhoff, Groningen, the Netherlands. Vol. 1 (1964) 647 pp., Vol. 2 (1965) 641 pp., Vol. 3 (1968) 761 pp.
• [407] Heyne, K., 1950. De nuttige planten van Indonesië [The useful plants of Indonesia]. 3rd Edition. 2 volumes. W. van Hoeve, 's-Gravenhage, the Netherlands/Bandung, Indonesia. 1660 + CCXLI pp.

Main genus page

• Dendrocnide

Authors

• J.L.C.H. van Valkenburg