Scientific Name
Gluta wallichii (Hook.f.) Ding Hou.
Synonyms
Melanorrhoea wallichii Hook.f. [unresolved]. [1]
Vernacular Name
| Malaysia | Rengas kerbau jalang, rengas burung, rengas sumpah biawak (Peninsular) [2]; rengas paya, rengas manok, rengas air [3] | |
| English | Wallich’s rengas tree [4] | |
| Singapore | Rengas (Malay) [4] | |
| Indonesia | Rengas tjujung (East Kalimantan) [2] | |
Geographical Distributions
Gluta wallichii is found in peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. It is widely distributed in mixed dipterocarp forest and swamp forest up to 1000 m altitude. In Peninsular Malaysia, it is common on hillsides, in Sumatra locally co-dominant in peat-swamp forest. It can be found on clayey soils as well as limestone. The density of the wood is 470-980 kg/m3 at 15 % moisture content. [2]Botanical Description
G. wallichiiis is comes from the family Anacardeaceae. It is a large evergreen tree that can reach up to measure 45 m tall, with its bole is up to measure 90 cm in diametre and up to measure4 m high buttresses. The bark surface is usually deeply fissured, greyish-brown and pinkish inner bark. [2]
The leaves are obovate-oblong to elliptical or elliptical-lance-shaped, with a size measure 8.5-34.5 cm x 4-14 cm, obtuse to acuminate at apex, sometimes slightly emarginate, hairless or velvety hairy below, with 9-24 pairs of secondary veins and up to measure 6 cm long petiole. [2]
The flowers are with irregularly bursting sepal. There are measures 4-7 mm long white petals, which are densely hairy and measure about 1.5 mm in diametre. The stamens 5 are while the ovary is hairy. [2]
The fruit is ovoid or ellipsoid in shape, up to measure 1.5 cm long, with an obscure stalk, smooth, brownish and with enlarged petals, which are up to measure 8 cm long. [2]
The cotyledons are free. [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. Gluta wallichii (Hook.f.) Ding Hou. [homepage on the Internet]. c2013 [updated 2013 Mar 23; cited 2015 June 11]. Available from: http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2827198.
- Gluta wallichii (Hook.f.) Ding Hou. In: Lemmens RHMJ, Soerianegara I, Wong WC, editors. Plant Resources of South-East Asia No.5(2): Timber trees: Minor Commercial Timbers. Leiden, Netherlands: Backhuys Publishers, 1995.
- Herbal Medicine Research Centre, Institute for Medical Research. Compendium of medicinal plants used in Malaysia. Volume 1. Kuala Lumpur: HMRC IMR; 2002. p. 375.
- Chin WY, Gopalakrishnakone P. A colour guide to dangerous plants. Singapore: Singapore University Press; 1990. p. 35-36.
