Smilax luzonensis (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Smilax luzonensis K. Presl
- Protologue: Reliq. haenk. 1: 131 (1827).
Synonyms
- Smilax helferi A.DC. (1878).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: akar banar, akar gadung tikus, banar babi (Peninsular)
- Cambodia: voë bâng-he:t khmô:t (Ratanakiri)
- Thailand: khueang (eastern), yaan thaat, faa laep (peninsular)
- Vietnam: dây kim cang.
Distribution
India, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and the Philippines.
Uses
Pounded rhizomes are used for poulticing boils in Malaysia, often together with leaves of Macaranga triloba (Blume) Muell.-Arg.
Observations
- A climber up to 5 m long with smooth or sparsely prickly stem and branches.
- Leaves broadly elliptical to elliptical, sometimes lanceolate-elliptical, up to 15 cm long, petiole up to 2 cm long, wings of petiolar sheaths weakly developed, tendrils up to 12 cm long.
- Inflorescence with 1-3 umbels.
- Fruit 5-6 mm in diameter, dirty yellow at maturity.
- Seeds dark red.
S. luzonensis is locally frequent in evergreen forest up to 1000 m altitude, in Malesia also in bushes in open country.
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.
- [779] Koyama, T., 1960. Materials toward a monograph of the genus Smilax. Quarterly Journal of the Taiwan Museum 13: 1-62.
- [780] Koyama, T., 1975. Smilacaceae. In: Smitinand, T. & Larsen, K. (Editors): Flora of Thailand. Vol. 2. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department, Bangkok, Thailand. pp. 211-250.
- [1227] Ridley, H.N., 1922-1925. The flora of the Malay Peninsula. 5 volumes. Government of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States. L. Reeve & Co, London, United Kingdom.
Main genus page
- Smilax (Medicinal plants)
Authors
- Stephen P. Teo