Gouania javanica (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Gouania javanica Miq.
- Protologue: Fl. Ned. Ind. 1(1): 649 (1856).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: banci putih, kepet (Javanese), musing (Madurese)
- Malaysia: akar sebueh, ketip-ketip
- Thailand: chalit chitcho, nam dap fai (Trang, Pattani)
- Vietnam: dây dòn gánh.
Distribution
Indo-China, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, the Philippines and Sulawesi.
Uses
In Peninsular Malaysia a poultice of the roots is applied to sores.
Observations
A liana up to 20 m long, young shoots densely brown-hairy; leaves ovate, 4-10 cm × 3-8 cm, base rounded, truncate or obtuse, apex very shortly acuminate, coarsely serrate-dentate, brown-hairy at least on the veins below, petiole 7-12 cm long; inflorescence a terminal or axillary panicle 6-20 cm long; flowers with densely short-hairy calyx tube, petals c. 1 mm long, processes of disk in bisexual flowers linear, somewhat shorter than the calyx segments; fruit c. 3 mm long, wings thin, 7-10 mm long, 2-3 times wider than cocci, pedicel thick, c. 0.3 mm long. G. javanica is found in open forest and brushwood, in Java from sea-level up to 1000 m altitude.
Selected sources
62, 121, 621.
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Authors
A.M. Aguinaldo