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Strychnos minor Dennst.

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

Schlüss. Hortus malab.: 33 (1818).

Strychnos laurina Wallich ex DC. (1845), Strychnos multiflora Benth. (1856), Strychnos colubrina auct. non L.

Indonesia: ranosandang (Sulawesi), ipu tanah (Kalimantan), wale ammelaum (Moluccas). Malaysia: lengkoyan, semiyo akar (Peninsular). Philippines: bukuan (Ibanag, Negrito), pamulaklakin (Tagalog), bugahin (Bisaya). Thailand: tum kaa khao, tum kaa daeng (Lampang). Vietnam: kim lu[oo]ng (Biên Hoa), thu[oor]c m[oj]i (Tây Ninh).

From India, Sri Lanka and Burma (Myanmar), through Indo-China (southern Vietnam), Thailand and the whole of Malesia (except Java), to the Solomon Islands and northern Australia.

The wood, bark and roots are used medicinally; a decoction is prescribed in the Philippines as an emmenagogue and to treat throat complaints, and it is also used as arrow poison. In Thailand, the stems are used for their carminative, antipyretic and stomachic activity. The stems are used for tying.

A liana up to 12 m long, with bark sometimes densely lenticellate, grey, tendrils double; leaves ovate or suborbicular to lanceolate, 8-25 cm x 3-12 cm, petiole 3-15 mm long; inflorescence axillary and/or terminal, many-flowered; corolla 3-6.5 mm long, tube about as long as lobes, inside in the upper half with woolly hairs; fruit globose, (1-)2-3 cm in diameter, sometimes ellipsoid and 3.5 cm long, about 1-8-seeded; seeds lenticular, 12-15 mm x 10-12 mm x 2-4 mm, minutely densely tomentose. Strychnos minor occurs in primary and secondary forest, in New Guinea also in Araucaria forest, up to 1850 m altitude.

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Purwaningsih

Purwaningsih, 1999. Strychnos minor Dennst.. In: de Padua, L.S., Bunyapraphatsara, N. and Lemmens, R.H.M.J. (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 12(1): Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea