Luculia pinceana Hook.

 Luculia pinceana Hook., Bot. Mag. 71: t. 4132 (1845).

Luculia pinceana Hook.; Photo by Lê Mạnh Tâm

Luculia pinceana Hook.; Paco Garin

Latinh name: 

Luculia pinceana Hook. 1845

Family

(RUBIACEAE).

Vietnamese name:

Hùng dê mù, Lu cu, Nụ đinh

Synonyms:

Luculia intermedia Hutch., Cinchona gratissima Wallich, Musaenda luculis Hamilton.

Description:

Evergreen bush or tree up to 3.5 m in height. Twigs are cylindrical, lenticellate and glabrous, with 3-4 cm internodes. Leaves are oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, acute or acuminate apex, 10-15 cm long x 2.5-5.5 cm wide, glabrous upper side, underside is pubescent along the veins, entire margin, petiole is 1-1.5 cm long. Flowers are grouped in lax terminal inflorescences, pink corolla, with tube up to 3 cm long. Fruit is turbinate, 2-2.5 cm long x 0.5 cm in diameter, with 10 longitudinal ribs, glabrous and covered in small lenticels.

Distribution:

Species is native to Burma, Vietnam and China (Yunnan). In Iturraran it is found in area 6.

Uses:

Treatment of difficult childbirth, rheumatism, kidney tonic (Roots).