Coscinium fenestratum (Goetgh.) Colebr.
Tree Tumeric / Ambuk sigubang (Bru.); Mengkunyit (M.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
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Woody climber that can reach up to 10 m high. Leaves are simple, alternately and spirally positioned, hairy and swollen at ends. Leaf blade is broadly ovate or peltate, acuminate at apex, truncate or rounded at base with entire margin and palmately 5-7-veined. Outer barks are greyish and scaly while the inner barks are yellowish and containing yellow sap. Inflorescence a flat raceme developing at leaf axils. Flowers are small and yellowish or whitish. Fruit a brownish-orange drupe. Seed are subglobose and
The leaves are eaten as vegetable to relieve liver stone. The roots are boiled and the resultant decoction is taken as remedy for poisoning. The plant possesses antioxidant
It thrives on waste grounds, on forest margins, in primary rain forests and secondary vegetation. It tolerates partial shade but seldom flowers.
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Native to South Asia and
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