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Suregada glomerulata (Blume) Baillon

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

Étude Euphorb.: 396 (1858).

Gelonium glomerulatum (Blume) Hassk. (1844).

Malaysia: limau-limau, penawar puteh (Peninsular). Vietnam: k[ej]n son ch[uj]m.

Vietnam, throughout the Malesian region and in Australia (Northern Territory).

A decoction of the roots is used against fever in Peninsular Malaysia. The wood is sometimes used for construction, e.g. for rafters, and as firewood.

A shrub or small to medium-sized tree up to 21 m tall; leaves eliptical-oblong to obovate, 5—15 cm x 2—5.5 cm, usually broadly rounded to obtuse at apex; fruit depressed-globose, c. 13 mm in diameter, capsular. Suregada glomerulata occurs in scrub vegetation, margins of mangrove, secondary forest, primary mixed dipterocarp forest, on river banks and the seashore, up to 150 m altitude, in Borneo up to 1500 m; it is locally common.

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Wongsatit Chuakul, Noppamas Soonthornchareonnon & Orawan Ruangsomboon

Chuakul, W., Soonthornchareonnon, N. & Ruangsomboon, O., 2003. Suregada glomerulata (Blume) Baillon. 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