Agelaea macrophylla

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Title

Agelaea macrophylla

Subject

Taxonomy
Phylum   :Tracheophyta
Class      :Magnoliopsida
Order     :Oxalidales
Family    :Connaraceae
Genus    :Agelaea
Species  :Agelaea macrophylla

Synonyms
Agelaea trinervis (Lianos) Merr., Agelaea diepenhorstii King, Agelaea hullettii King, Agelaea sarawakensis Merr., Agelaea wallichii Hook.f., Castanola hullettii (King) Schellenb., Castanola macrophylla (Zoll.) Schellenb., Castanola wallichii (Hook.f.) Schellenb., Connarus diepenhorstii Miq., Erythrostigma macrophylla Zoll., Erythrostigma macrophyllum Zoll., Hemiandrina hullettii (King) G. Schellenb.

Common name
Akar pinang kutai, Akar nyamok, Pinang kotai, Akar pinang ketul

Description

Characteristics
A large liana with stem up to 4 cm in diametre. The leaf stalk is up to 15 cm long while the stipules are absent.

Morphology

Leaves
With three leaflets. The leaflets are egg-shaped to elliptical-oblong, about 4-34 cm x 2-14 cm. They are entire. The upper surface has many mucous cells, which looks like small pits in dried material.  

Inflorescence
An axillary, paniculate and often several together in the axil of a sometimes-rudimentary leaf, up to 5 cm long.

Flowers 
Bisexual, (4-)5-merous, up to 6 mm long, sweet-scented and more or less heterodistylous. Pedicels are jointed. The sepals are nearly free. Petals are much longer than sepals, free and whitish. There are 10 stamens, shortly united at base with 5 are slightly longer than the other 5. The carpels are 5, superior and free.

Fruit
Consisting of 1-5 follicles, obovoid, with or without a beak at the apex, velvety, orange to red, dehiscing by a ventral suture and 1-seeded.

Seeds
Fleshy, yellow to red testa in lower part and black but glossy testa in upper part. They are without endosperm. The cotyledons are thick and planoconvex.

List of country
Indo-China, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo, the Moluccas and the Philippines.

Creator

Agelaea macrophylla (Leenh,1958)

Publisher

Nur Athirah Roshaizi

Contributor

Nur Athirah Roshaizi

Language

English

Collection

Citation

Agelaea macrophylla (Leenh,1958), “Agelaea macrophylla,” BIDARA, accessed February 4, 2026, https://bidara.uthm.edu.my/items/show/378.

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