Gynochthodes umbellata
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Illustration as Guttenbergia umbellata |
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Gynochthodes umbellata is a species of plant in the red family from India and Southeast Asia to northeast Australia .
description
Gynochthodes umbellata grows as an evergreen vine up to 20 meters high. The mostly bald stem axis can be up to 14 centimeters thick at the base. The smooth bark is brownish-gray.
The simple and short-stalked, bald, slightly leathery leaves are opposite. The short, often slightly runny and almost bald petiole is up to 1 centimeter long. The eilanzettlichen or lanceolate to obovate, -eilanzettlichen and pointed to acuminate or acuminate to tailed, entire-margined leaves are up to 12 centimeters long and up to 4.5 centimeters wide. There are small, bald and more or less overgrown stipules .
Terminal and compound dold-like-tufted inflorescences with up to 10-11 small heads with up to 20 flowers are formed. The male or hermaphrodite, 4-5-fold, very small, green-yellowish or -white and almost sessile flowers have a double flower envelope . The blunt, small flower cup is tubular and bare with minimal calyx tips. The crown is fused into a short tube, initially long-haired on the inside, with sweeping, bald and somewhat longer tips, up to 2.2 millimeters long. There are 4–5 very short, almost sessile stamens on the throat. The ovary is inferior with a thin stylus with two small, spreading scars branches .
There are small, orange and bald, shining up to 12-15 millimeters in size, roundish-knobby fruit associations ( false fruit ) formed with round chalice remains of the individual fruits. They consist of up to 12 intergrown, small individual fruits, stone fruits . The seeds (Pyrene) are wedge-shaped and about 3.5-5.5 millimeters long.
use
The fruits are used raw or cooked. The ripe fruits smell of cheese. Usually only the green, unripe fruits are used when cooked.
The bark and roots are used medicinally.
A yellow-orange to red or brown and dark-purple dye (Mang-Kondu) can be obtained from the root.
literature
- S. Suratman: The genus Gynochthodes (Rubiaceae) in Sumatra. In: Blumea journal of plant taxonomy and plant geography. 62 (3), 2018, doi: 10.3767 / blumea.2018.62.03.05 , online at researchgate.net.
Web links
- Gynochthodes umbellata at Useful Tropical Plants.
- Gynochthodes umbellata in Phytoimages (pictures).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emil Abderhalden : Biochemisches Handlexikon. VI. Volume, Springer, 1911, ISBN 978-3-642-88961-5 (reprint), p. 116.