Macaranga hullettii (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Macaranga hullettii King ex Hook.f.
- Protologue: Fl. Brit. Ind. 5: 452 (1887).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: mahang bulan, mahang serindit (Peninsular).
Distribution
Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo.
Uses
In Peninsular Malaysia a decoction is applied internally to treat stomach-ache. The wood is used as firewood.
Observations
A small tree up to 18 m tall, twigs hollow, ant-inhabited; leaves narrowly ovate to ovate, 14-32 cm × 6-16(-22) cm, usually not lobed, sometimes with tiny lateral lobes, glabrous, peltate, stipules persistent, up to 1 cm long, broad and recurved; male flowers in sparsely branched panicles up to 30 cm long, with 1 stamen, female flowers with 5 styles fused at base; fruits crowded, strongly shouldered or horned. M. hullettii occurs mainly in lowland primary forest, often in riverine forest, but also in lower montane forest, up to 1350 m altitude.
Selected sources
20, 22, 121, 194, 731, 990.
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Authors
S. Aggarwal