Saurauia armata

Saurauia armata Kurz, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 42(2): 59 (1873).

Saurauia armata Kurz, Photo by  Hoang Thanh  Son

its native range is E. Himalaya to Indo-China.

Latin name:

Saurauia armata Kurz 

Family:

Actinidiaceae Engl. & Gilg

Synonyms:

Saurauia dillenioides Gagnep.

Vietnamese name:

Nóng lá to; Sổ dã nhọn. 

English  namee:

Porbotia heiugunia, Parbatia sengunia, Porbotia, Sengunia, Hengunia

Describtion:

Shrubs or small trees, 3-7 m tall. Bark brown, young stems and branches with tubercular dots and subulate stiff scales, about 0.5-1 mm long, becoming glabrescent. Leaves simple, alternate, oblanceolate-obovate, about 15-41 x 8-17 cm across, base obtuse to acute, margins remotely serrate or subentire with stiff hairs, apex acute to abruptly short acuminate, membranous, chartaceous, green glabrous above or sparsely tomentose with stiff hairs on the lateral veins beneath, becoming glabrescent later, midrib impressed above and prominent, tomentose beneath, lateral veins 18-21 on either side of the midrib, veinlets reticulate, petiole densely scaly, stout, about 5-20 mm long, exstipulate. Inflorescence axillary, solitary, clustered in cymes. Flowers bisexual, pedicellate, bracteate, sepals 5, subequal, free, imbricate, elliptic-orbicular, base free or subconnate, tomentose inside, whereas tomentose with sharp pointed scales outside, about 10 x 8 mm across, persistent, petals 5, imbricate, white, base reddish, obovate-orbicular, base connate, glabrous. Stamens numerous, adnate to the base of the petals, about 1-2 mm long, filaments slender, anthers versatile, 2 loculed, dehiscing by apical pores or sometimes by short slits. Ovary superior, globose, 3-5 locular, about 3 mm long, densely villous, ovules numerous in each locule, axile placentation, style 5, base hairy, connate till middle, stigma simple or discoid. Fruit berry, globose-ovoid, densely villous, usually ribbed, rarely dry and subdehiscent. Seeds numerous, small, brown, albuminous.

Distribution: 

Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Vietnam.

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Uses:

Sweet crushed young twigs and leaves are applied on cuts and wounds to stop bleeding and for healing.

Typus:

Apr 1, 1973 Griffith, W. [1162], Bhutan K000761684 Unknown type material

References:

https://www.ipni.org/n/829292-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:829292-1

https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/279969

https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Parbatia%20Sengunia.html