Family Name
ANNONACEAE
Scientific Name
Artabotrys blumei Hook. f. & Th.
Synonyms
Artabotrys hamatus Blume
Local Names
Gulyasan (Tag.)
Botanical Description
A hook- climbing liana. Young twigs rarely twining. Stem 1 cm or more in diameter, without exudate, striated, glabrous; outer bark rust brown , inner bark light brown. Leaves alternate, shiny and green on both sides, simple, entire, ovate to elliptic ,apex acuminate, base shallowly cordate coriaceous; petiole 0.1-0.4 cm long, 0.1 cm in diameter, glabrous; venation pinnately netted, eucamptodromous with 5-7 pairs of lateral branches. Hook 1 cm or mor length, green turning brown, terete, the tip very sharp. Flowers shortly pedicelled, bisexual; sepals 3, valvate, fused at the base; petals in 2 whorls of 3, brownish yellow; stamens many; ovaries usually 3-12 (less than 20); ovules 2. Fruits ellipsoid, acutely beaked, 3-5 cm long, red.
Distribution Ecology
Malesia; Java and Philippines. Found in limestone forests and secondary forests at 50-800 m altitudes.
Other Economic Uses
Essential oil cyperenone and 1,5-epoxysalvial-4(14)-ene, both exclusively found in Artabotrys species (Fournier et al. 1997). The stem and bark yield the chemotaxonomically important compounds artabotrine and artabotrinine.
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Other Plant Notes
This species is preferred over the other annonaceous species in the manufacture of handicraft products because of its very rigid but pliable stems.