Scientific Name
Aristolochia tagala Cham.
Synonyms
Aristolochia acuminata Lam., Aristolochia angulosa Wall. ex Duch., Aristolochia eschscholtzii Ledeb. ex Duchesne, Aristolochia roxburghiana Klotzsch, Aristolochia subsagittata Blanco [1]
Vernacular Name
| Malaysia | Akar ketola hutan, akar petola hutan (Peninsular) [2][3]; akar ara bukit [4] |
| English | Birthwort, dutchman’s pipe [2] |
| China | Yin du ma dou ling, chui guo ma dou ling, luan ye ma dou ling, luan ye lei gong teng [3] |
| India | Nallayishwari (Telugu); valiya arayan, mala arayan [3] |
| Indonesia | Kalayar (Sundanese); puyan (Javanese); kunit (Sulawesi); puyan, prajon (Javanese) [2][3] |
| Thailand | Krachao pheemot, krachao mot (Central) [2][3]; krachao sida [4] |
| Philippines | Timbangan (Tagalog); goan-goan (Bisaya); nagerus (Iloko) [2] |
| Vietnam | Ph[of]ng k[yr], d[aa]y kh[oos] r[as]ch [2][3] |
| France | Aristoloche [2][3]. |
Geographical Distributions
Aristolochia tagala is distributed from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, through Burma (Myanmar), Indo-China (Cambodia, Vietnam), China and Thailand, to the whole of Malesia, the Solomon Islands and Australia (Queensland). [2] This plant occurs in forest and thickets, usually up to 800 m altitude, but in Thailand up to 1050 m and in New Guinea up to 1350 m. [2]
Botanical Description
A. tagala comes from the family of Aristolochiaceae. This is a climber that can reach up to 20 m long. The branches are slightly furrowed with a diametre up to 5 mm. [2]
The 6-20(-27) cm x 4-10(-16) cm leaves are usually egg-shaped to egg-shaped-oblong. They are heart-shaped at the base with rounded auricles. It is sparsely short-haired to sub-hairless underneath with 2 pairs of basal veins. There are 3-5 pairs of secondary veins and loosely reticulate or crossbar-like tertiary veins. [2]
The flowers are in raceme-like or resembling an indeterminate branches raceme-like inflorescence, 1-lipped whole floral leaves, with faint venation that is either pale yellowish or greenish to purplish or dark reddish-brown. [2]
The fruit is nearly globular and slightly pear-shaped or oblong that up to 4 cm long. [2]
The seeds are winged. [2]
Cultivation
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References
- The Plant List. Ver1.1. Aristolochia tagala Cham. [homepage on the Internet]. c2013 [updated 2012 Mar 23; cited 2015 Apr 07]. Available from: http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2651940
- Kiew R. Aristolochia tagala Cham. In: de Padua LS, Bunyapraphatsara N, Lemmens RHMJ editors. Plant Resources of South-East Asia No. 12(1): Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Leiden, Netherlands: Backhuys Publisher; 1999. p. 138-139.
- Philippines medicinal plants. Aristolochia tagala. [homepage on the internet] c2014. [updated 2014; cited 2015 Apr 9] Available from http://www.stuartxchange.com/Timbangan.html
- Herbal medicine Research Centre Institute for Medical research. Compendium of Medicinal Plants Used in Malaysia. Volume 1. Kuala Lumpur: HMRC-IMR; 2002. p. 84.
