Turnera ulmifolia L.
Yellow Buttercups / Lidah kucing (Bru.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
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Perennial woody shrub of up to 1 m high. Leaves are simple, spirally and alternately arranged, dark green, aromatic and shiny. Leaf blade is oblong-lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, acute at apex, attenuate at base with toothed margin and pinnate venation. Stems are glabrous, woody, rounded, green to brown. Flowers are small, yellow and star-shaped. Inflorescence a terminal cyme or solitary. Fruit a ovoid, hairy capsule that contains many small
Locally, the leaves can be eaten as a vegetable to maintain general health. The plant is reported for its antiobesity and induction of
It prefers sandy soil under sunlight to partial shade. It thrives on hill slopes, coastal areas, and in forests.
Seeds and stem cutting.
Native to Central and South America and introduced to Malaysia, Indonesia, several other Pacific Islands and
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