Scientific Name
Adenia cordifolia (Blume) Engl.
Synonyms
Adenia quadrifida Merr., Adenia vespertilio Hallier f., Modecca cordifolia Blume, Adenia obtusa (Blume) Engl., Adenia populifolia auct. non (Blume) Engl [1]
Vernacular Name
| Malaysia | Akar kail, akar kelipunang [2] |
| Indonesia | Areuy babaling-bingan, areuy calingcing (Sundanese); laying-layang (Kedayan) [2] |
Geographical Distributions
Adenia cordifolia distribution is throughout Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Western Java, Borneo and the Philippines (Palawan). It occurs both in shrub and forest vegetation, also in peat swamp forest, up to 1200 m altitude [2].
Botanical Description
This is a liana species from family Passifloraceae, which can reach up to 20 m long [2].
The leaves are entire, rounded to deeply heart-shaped but not peltate at the base. The leaf is with 2 glands on deeply hollowed auricles at the apex of the petiole while the auricles are separated from the leaf blade [2].
The flowers are tubiform-urn-shaped and connate sepals with erect lobes while the corona is absent [2].
The fruit is ellipsoid-oblong to spindle-shaped [2].
Cultivation
No documentation
Chemical Constituent
No documentation
Plant Part Used
No documentation
Traditional Use
No documentation
Preclinical Data
No documentation
Clinical Data
No documentation
Poisonous Management
No documentation.
Line Drawing
References
- The Plant List. Ver1.1. Adenia cordifolia (Blume) Engl. [updated 2012 April 18; cited 2014 July 14]. c2013. Available from: http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2621445
- Aguilar NO. Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 12(3). Medicinal and poisonous plants 3. Netherlands: Backhuys Publishers; 2003.
