Uvaria rufa Blume

Scrambling shrub or liana. Indumentum of multiradiate stellate trichomes. Leaves: petiole 5–9 mm long; lamina obovate, ovate or elliptic, mostly 6–18 cm long, 4–10 cm wide, rounded or shallowly cordate at base, shortly acuminate, acute or obtuse, sometimes rounded at apex, scabrellous or glabrous above, pubescent below; secondary veins mostly 9–13 pairs. Flowers 1–3 developing serially; pedicel 1.7–2 cm long, tomentose; bracts suborbicular or broadly ovate, 8–14 mm long. Sepals connate, tomentose; lobes indistinct or depressed-ovate, 3.5–4 mm long, 9–10 mm wide. Petals 6, free, in 2 distinct whorls, inner slightly smaller, ovate or oblong, 13–17 mm long, 8–11 mm wide, obtuse, tomentose outside, puberulous within, orange-red. Stamens c. 100–120, 2.4–2.6 mm long; outer ones anantherous, oblong, flat; inner ones with oblong, trigonous, rounded connective. Carpels c. 6–20; ovary 2.5 mm long; ovules 16–20; stigma subglobular, sessile or subsessile, pubescent on sides. Apocarps ellipsoidal, 2–4.5 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, rufous-tomentose; stipe 1–2 cm long. Seeds irregularly obloid, bilaterally flattened, smooth, brown.

A tropical plant. They occur from central Luzon to southern Mindanao in the Philippines in small areas of shrub and in forests at low altitudes. It grows in southern China in mountainous sparse forests between 400-1700 m. altitude. In Yunnan.

The ripe fruit are eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable. The dried fruit are used as a masticatory.

They are sometimes cultivated. Plants can be grown by seeds.