Desmos dumosus (PROSEA)

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Desmos dumosus (Roxb.) Safford


Family: Annonaceae

Synonyms

Desmos subbiglandulosus (Miquel) Merrill, Oxymitra monilifera Merrill, Unona dumosa Roxb.

Vernacular names

  • Malaysia: akar kinching juhu, pisang-pisang padi, pisang-pisang pipit (Peninsular)
  • Thailand: tintang (north-eastern)
  • Vietnam: dẻ bụi.

Distribution

India (Assam), Burma (Myanmar), Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, the Riau Archipelago and Borneo.

Uses

Potable water can be obtained from inside the stems.

Observations

A scandent, straggling shrub; young twigs tomentose, glabrescent, lenticellate. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, purplish tomentose when young; blade broadly ovate to oblong-ovate, 6-17 cm × 4-7 cm, base subcuneate to emarginate, apex slightly acute or obtuse, venation prominent below. Flowers solitary, leaf-opposed or extra-axillary; pedicel about 2 cm long; sepals 3, valvate, about 1 cm long; petals 6, in 2 rows, obovate-spatulate to broadly ovate-lanceolate, greenish-yellow, densely pubescent when young, the outer ones 5-8 times as long as the sepals; stamens numerous, extrorse. Ripe carpels many, free, 2-3 cm long, constricted between the seeds, glabrous, yellow turning dark purple. Seeds 2-4, 1-seriate, shining, medium brown. D. dumosus is found in open country and thickets.

Selected sources

15, 28, 55, 58, 59, 66, 70.

Authors

M.S.M. Sosef