Pandanus yvanii Solms
Null / Terasau/Rasau (Bru.)(Dus.); Kayu sebubu (Tut.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
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Perennial evergreen tree that can reach 3 m high. Leaves are simple, forming a rosette, spirally arranged, adaxially yellow-green with no ventral pleats and abaxially pale green with recurved small brown spines. Leaf blade is lanceolate, acute to acuminate at apex with toothed margin. Stems are erect, covered with sharp nodules on the outer surface, unbranched or branched at terminal branch. Barks are dark purplish brown when mature and spiny. Infructescence arising at
Locally, it is used as remedy for muscle sprain, menstrual cramp and slow functioning brain. The whole herb except root parts are boiled and made into decoction and can be taken orally. The plant is reported for its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibiotic, antiulcerogenic
It thrives on swampy and muddy areas with brackish water. It prefers silt, clay and humus soil under full sunlight.
Seeds.
Distributed in Malay Peninsula, Malacca, Sumatra and Borneo.
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