Macaranga glaberrima (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Macaranga glaberrima (Hassk.) Airy Shaw

Protologue: Kew Bull. 19: 322 (1965).

Synonyms

• Macaranga subfalcata (Reichenb.f. & Zoll. ex Zoll.) Müll. Arg. (1866).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: bataruwa, ki harepang prongpeng (Sundanese), tanglar (Javanese).

Distribution

Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands (Flores) and New Guinea (Irian Jaya).

Uses

Young leaves are applied to cuts. The wood is used to build houses.

Observations

• A small to medium-sized tree up to 20 m tall, with bole up to 30 cm in diameter.
• Leaves elliptical, 4.5-18(-27) cm × 2-7(-9) cm, slightly 2-lobed at base, glabrous, not peltate, stipules linear to subulate, caducous.
• Male flowers in sinuous spikes, often as a dense "witches' broom" up to 6.5 cm long, with c. 12 stamens, female flowers with 2-celled ovary.
• Fruit double-globose, c. 1.2 cm long, very shortly spiny.

M. glaberrima seems restricted to primary forest, up to 1400 m altitude.

Selected sources

21, 62, 334, 731, 883. medicinals

Main genus page

• Macaranga

Authors

• S. Aggarwal