Strychnos minor Dennst.
Syn. Strychnos lenticellata Hill
Family: Loganiaceae
- English: Snake wood tree
- Telugu: Naagamushti
- Malayalam: Cherukanjiravally
- Indonesia: ipu tanah, ranosandang, wale ammelaum
- Malaysia: lengkoyan, semiyo akar
- Philippines: bugahin, bukuan, pamulaklakin
- Thailand: tum kaa daeng, tum kaa khao
- Vietnam: kim lu[oo]ng, thu[oor]c m[oj]i
Description: Climbing shrubs; bark pale brown; tendrils 2-branched. Leaves 5.5-14 x 2.8-5.4 cm, ovate or elliptic-ovate, base obtuse or rounded, apex acute or acuminate, coriaceous, 3-ribbed from a little above the base; petiole to 1.2 cm long. Flowers white in cymes up to 3 cm long. Calyx lobes c. 1 mm long. Corolla tube c. 2 mm long, throat wooly; lobes ovate-acute, as long as the tube. Berry woody 2-2.5 cm across. Seeds 1-3, orbicular
It is used in the Philippines to treat throat trouble. A decoction of bark is used as an emmenagogue, and the Negritos chew the bark to treat prolapse of the uterus. The seeds are poisonous on probable account of strychnine and congeners. [Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal Plants Asia and the Pacific]
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