Eurycoma apiculata A.W.Benn.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Simaroubaceae > Eurycoma

Characteristics

Leaves c. 40 cm long. Leaflets usually rather abruptly very blunt-acuminate, c. 8-14 by 2-4 cm. Panicles, pedicels, calyx, and petals with thick, stiff, capitate-glandular hairs. Bracts small, linear, up to c. 1 mm long. Pedicels rather slender, up to c. 1 mm long. Calyx lobes c. 1.5-2 mm long. Petals puberulous, with glandular hairs outside, glabrous within, linear, rarely lanceolate, c. 4-9 by 1-1.5 mm. Stamens usually as long as the calyx or shorter, c. 2 mm long, anthers c. 0.75 mm long; ligule usually absent; staminodes in 1 or 2 rows, up to c. 0.25 mm, small or absent. Styles very short, with a 5-lobed sessile stigma. Fruit as in former species.
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An understorey plant of primary and secondary forest, found on acid, sandy soils at elevations up to 1,200 metres.
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Similar as in E. longifolia, but usually at higher altitude, up to c. 1200 m. Fl.fr. Jan.-Dec.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Uses medicinal poison
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Can be grown by seedlings.
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Distribution

Eurycoma apiculata world distribution map, present in Indonesia, Iceland, and Malaysia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:813709-1
WFO ID wfo-0000683341
COL ID 3D3S2
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Synonyms

Eurycoma apiculata