Goniothalamus velutinus Airy Shaw
Null / Talipanas hitam/Lakum/Kayuras (Bru.)(Tut.);
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
Propagation
Distribution
Precaution
A small woody tree reaching up to 6 m tall. Leaves are simple, alternately arranged, dark green, petiolate and hairy. Leaf blade obovate-lanceolate to ovate-cuneate, acute at apex, cuneate at base with entire margin and pinnate venation. Stems are dark rusty. Both barks and leaves produce a pungent smell when
The roots are soaked in warm water as herbal bath as a remedy for tiredness and locally known as ‘Carah’. The edible fruit is gathered from the wild for local consumption.
It prefers fertile loamy soil under sunlight to partial shade. It thrives along slopes, on ridges, near streams and in lowland dipterocarp forests.
Seeds.
Native to Borneo.
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