Eurycoma apiculata (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Eurycoma apiculata A.W. Bennett

Protologue: Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 522 (1875).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra.

Uses

The most common application of E. apiculata is as a decoction of the roots as a febrifuge.

Observations

• A small tree up to 5 m tall.
• Leaves up to 40 cm long, leaflets 8-14 cm × 2-4 cm, usually rather abruptly blunt-acuminate.
• Petals linear, rarely lanceolate, 4-9 mm × 1-1.5 mm, puberulous, with glandular hairs outside, glabrous inside, styles very short, stigma 5-lobed.
• Fruit 10-17(-20) mm × 5-12 mm.

E. apiculata is common in the understorey of primary and secondary forest.

Selected sources

• 202. Burkill, I.H., 1966. A dictionary of the economic products of the Malay Peninsula. Revised reprint. 2 volumes. Ministry of Agriculture and Co operatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Vol. 1 (A-H) pp. 1-1240. Vol. 2 (I- Z) pp. 1241-2444.
• 1052. Nooteboom, H.P., 1972. Simaroubaceae. In: van Steenis C.G.G.J. (General editor): Flora Malesiana. Series 1, Vol. 6. Wolters Noordhoff, Groningen, the Netherlands. pp. 193-226.

Main genus page

• Eurycoma (Medicinal plants)

Authors

• Tahan Uji