Glochidion glomerulatum (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia
Introduction

List of species

Glochidion glomerulatum (Miq.) Boerl.

Protologue: Handl. fl. Ned. Ind. 3: 276 (1900).

Synonyms

Glochidion wallichianum Müll. Arg. (1863).

Vernacular names

Indonesia: samak pulut (Sumatra)
Malaysia: ubah puteh, hujan panas puteh, pokok manchong (Peninsular)
Thailand: rot nam (Surat Thani), manpuu (Trang)
Vietnam: sóc chụm, bọt ếch lùn.

Distribution

Burma (Myanmar), Indo-China, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Bangka, Java and Borneo.

Uses

In Sumatra, scrapings of the bark are mixed with water and the solution is drunk to treat dysentery.

Observations

A shrub or small to medium-sized tree up to 20(-27) m tall, bole up to 45 cm in diameter, with or without buttresses.
Leaves obliquely ovate, 6-15 cm × 3.5-8 cm, glabrous, petiole 3-5 mm long.
Inflorescence sessile; male flowers with 3 stamens, female flowers with usually 3-celled ovary.
Fruit usually strongly 6-lobed, depressed, c. 5 mm in diameter, minutely pubescent, sessile.

G. glomerulatum occurs in primary as well as secondary forest up to 1500 m altitude, also in swamp forest and forest fringes. It is locally common, e.g. in Peninsular Malaysia.

Selected sources

19, 20, 22, 62, 121, 295, 296, 990.

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Authors

Yun Astuti Nugroho