Brucea mollis Wall. ex Kurz

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Simaroubaceae > Brucea

Characteristics

Shrubs or small trees, usually 1-2 m tall, sometimes up to 5 m. Branchlets yellow-green, puberulent; branches red-purple, densely white lenticellate. Leaves odd-pinnate, 20-45(-60) cm; rachis and petiole densely yellow pubescent; leaflets 5-15; petiolules 3-7 mm; blades elliptic-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, or broadly lanceolate, 5-12(-15) × 2.5-5 cm, yellow tomentose when young, then puberulent or glabrescent, base broadly cuneate or slightly rounded, somewhat oblique, margin entire, apex long acuminate or acuminate; lateral veins 8-10 pairs, abaxially conspicuously prominent. Panicles long, 10-25 cm, slender; rachis densely yellow tomentose, then sparsely pubescent or glabrescent. Flowers 2-3 mm in diam. Petals spoon-shaped, shortly pubescent, longer than stamens. Disk flat and globose in males, shallowly disk-shaped in females. Ovary densely pubescent. Druparium ovoid, 8-12 × 6-8 mm, glabrous, red-brown when dry, shallowly reticulately wrinkled.
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Shrub or small tree, 1-8 m, stem 3-10 cm ø. Leaves 20-60 cm long; leaflets 3-9(-13), ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, entire, toothed, undulate, bluntly serrate, or crenate, glabrous or pubescent, 5-16 by 1-8 cm; petiole 2-13 cm, lateral petiolules 2-10 mm, terminal one 3-40 mm. Inflorescence and flowers as in B. javanica, but the pedicels of the female flowers up to 6 mm long. Flowers white, creamy, green or red. Mature dried drupes 1-2(-3) together, 9-13 mm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 1.0 - 6.0
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Environment

Always in open forests, often in damp places, usually on slopes and ridges, 0-1800 m. Fl. Jan.-Aug.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Distribution

Brucea mollis world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60469132-2
WFO ID wfo-0000572711
COL ID 694MY
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Synonyms

Brucea acuminata Brucea luzoniensis Brucea mollis Brucea macrobotrys Brucea membranacea Brucea stendphylla Lussa mollis