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Voacanga foetida (Blume) Rolfe

This article should be read together with the article on the genus: Voacanga in the Handbook volume indicated above in this database.

Journ. Bot. London 21: 202 (1883).

Orchipeda foetida Blume (1826).

Indonesia: rango-rango (Malay), hamperu (Sundanese), puding-hitam (Riau, Sumatra).

Sumatra, West and Central Java, southern Kalimantan.

In Indonesia, the latex is applied externally against various skin diseases. In Madura, the leaves are heated over a fire and placed on chronic leg sores. In South Sumatra, the leaves are moistened with coconut oil and used externally against headache and stomach-ache. The wood is used for making sheaths for knives and other weapons.

A shrub or small tree with a wide crown, 3—20 m tall, trunk up to 20—40 cm in diameter; leaves elliptical, narrowly elliptical or narrowly ovate, 7—34 cm x 3—11 cm, 1.9—3.5 times longer than wide, petiole 5—15 mm long; inflorescence pedunculate, cymose, lax, 12—21 cm x 5—10 cm, few-flowered; flowers a little foul-smelling, calyx campanulate, clasping the corolla tube, 2.0—3.7 cm long from the abscission layer, corolla 6.5—10.0 cm long, corolla tube infundibuliform, not twisted, white, creamy or sometimes pale yellow, stamens deeply included; fruit consisting of 2 free subglobose mericarps, 6—11 cm in diameter, green with small grey warts, fruit wall 10—15 mm thick, aril orange. Voacanga foetida is found in light forest from sea-level up to 600 m altitude.

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R. Hendrian

Hendrian, R., 2001. Voacanga foetida (Blume) Rolfe. In: van Valkenburg, J.L.C.H. and Bunyapraphatsara, N. (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 12(2): Medicinal and poisonous plants 2. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea