Tetrastigma pedunculare (Wall. ex Laws.) Planch.
Null / Akar bubut (Bel.); Akar pou (Bor.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
Propagation
Distribution
Precaution
Terrestrial large vine that can climb up to 9 m high. Leaves are tri-foliate compound, alternately arranged, stiff but flexible, adaxially glabrous and abaxially glaucous. The size and distance between terminal and lateral leaflets is variable. Terminal leaflet is elliptic to broadly elliptical to rhombic, acuminate at apex, acute at base with toothed margin. Lateral leaflet is asymetrically oblong, acute at apex, oblique at base with toothed margin. Stems are thick, woody, circular with lenticels on the surface. Inflorescence a cyme and leaf-opposed. Flowers are hairy. Fruit a globose small berry that
Rhizome decoction and the base of pseudostem is taken for gastrointestinal complaints such as stomachache, diarrhoea, vomiting and indigestion. It is locally known and used as spice in dishes.
It usually grows on scrub, on thicket, coastal forest edges and near to riverbanks. It prefers sandy loamy soil under full sunlight to shade.
Seeds and stem cutting.
Distributed in tropical countries.
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