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Spatholobus littoralis Hassk.

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

Flora 25, 2 (Beibl.): 79 (1842).

Butea littoralis (Hassk.) Blatter (1929).

Indonesia: areuy bajur, areuy munding jalu, manyiritan (Sundanese).

South-eastern Sumatra, Java, south-eastern Borneo and the northern Philippines.

In Java the juice is drunk and used to wash the feet, as a remedy for languor and difficulty in moving the legs.

A large liana up to 25(—50) m long, branches yellow-green or dull brown pubescent; leaves with lateral leaflets slightly asymmetric, terminal leaflet elliptical to narrowly elliptical-ovate, 7—21 cm x 2—7.5 cm, stipules straight, caducous, 4—8 mm x 1.5—4 mm; inflorescence up to 15 cm long, with flowers arranged in short-stalked fascicles; flowers with white petals, standard with truncate to emarginate base, wing petals sometimes with a lateral pocket and a small dorsal auricle, keel petals with a lateral pocket; fruit 7.5—10.5 cm x 2—3 cm, glabrous; seed c. 22 mm x 18 mm. Spatholobus littoralis is found in thickets, forest margins and mixed forest at 150—1200 m altitude.

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J.W.A. Ridder-Numan

Ridder-Numan, J.W.A., 2003. Spatholobus littoralis Hassk.. In: Lemmens, R.H.M.J. and Bunyapraphatsara, N. (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 12(3): Medicinal and poisonous plants 3. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea