Typhonium flagelliforme (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Typhonium flagelliforme (Lodd.) Blume
- Protologue: Rumphia 1: 134 (1837).
Synonyms
Typhonium cuspidatum (Blume) Blume (1834), Typhonium divaricatum auct. non Blume.
Vernacular names
- Thailand: sa oy (Surin), ta phit kap yao (Loei), wan dakdae (Yasothon)
- Vietnam: bán hạ roi, củ chóc mo dài.
Distribution
India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Burma (Myanmar), the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Indo-China (Cambodia, Vietnam), southern China, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, the Philippines (Luzon), southern New Guinea and Australia (northern Queensland).
Uses
T. flagelliforme is used in traditional medicine in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore for treating different types of malignancy. In Thailand the whole plant is applied as a poultice to abscesses. In Vietnam the tubers are probably used to treat cough, asthma and nausea.
Observations
A small herb up to 40 cm tall, with depressed-globose tuber up to 2 cm in diameter and subterranean stolons; leaves extremely variable, elliptical to ovate, with base acute to auriculate, cordate or hastate, but usually narrowly hastate, up to 25 cm long, petiole up to 30 cm long; spathe very narrow and elongate, up to 28 cm long, pale greenish; lower sterile flowers spatulate, black or purple-tipped. T. flagelliforme occurs in a variety of habitats in the lowland, from swamp forest to savanna and eucalypt lowland.
Selected sources
154, 166, 324, 680.
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Authors
Wongsatit Chuakul, Noppamas Soonthornchareonnon & Orawan Ruangsomboon